Quotes About Motherhood

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's age.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman.

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation.

A Women who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.

You know, when you welcome a child into the world, you witness the birth of your child, and you've been there for that nine month period, you realize that there's no doubt, there's no question that women are the stronger of the sexes. There's no doubt. Any man who had to carry a child for nine months would cave in about month or two. And then delivery, you know labor? Yeah, it's over with. So yeah, I would certainly like to explore that. Sure.