Quotes About Motherhood

Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

She had to admit, pregnancy had been an experience. Not that anything bad had happened, it was more that she felt constantly in awe of what was taking place in her body, and she couldn't believe that soon she would have a son to call her own.

My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.

I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.

We must protect the girls," Mrs. Kroehne said. "You understand." I do understand. I am a contaminant and must be kept silent. It has been three months since my baby was born, three months since I walked away from my baby with milk dripping from my breasts. I will not say this to any of these young people during my time among them. I will construct careful lies and memorize them to explain myself, my dark inward life, my hunger for love, my tough resistance to trust.

Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

The prophets of every age come from the hands of attentive mothers

The world is full of instructions and advice on how to mother, in bookstores, in academia, on the playgrounds, in the media. Mothers are always examining how they treat their children, but aside from the occasional "Don't talk to your mother that way," or "You shouldn't have listened to your mother," there's not much guidance out there for daughters.

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

From what I have seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.

He observed poetically that a mother goldfinch, seeing her children caged, feeds them a bit of a poisonous plant,noting, "Better death than to be without freedom.

Now they can acquire "the egg from one source (including, in many cases, the intended mother) and the womb from another."50 This "unbundling" of the supply chain, Spar explains, has prompted growth in the surrogacy market.51 "By removing the traditional link between egg, womb, and mother, gestational surrogacy [has] reduced the legal and emotional risks that had surrounded traditional surrogacy and allowed a new market to thrive.

This is YOUR book. With it, comes the responsibility to be a better woman. Also a better friend, better daughter, better mother, better wife. Not everything will apply. What

She throws herself at Julianne, calling her Mummy. I haven't heard her use the word in four years. "Be careful. Don't squeeze her too hard," warns the young blond paramedic. "Do you have children?" I ask her. "No." "You'll learn it doesn't hurt when they squeeze you hard.

some ways, this is the most difficult aspect of the role; it demands that Mariela portray a wealthy, professional, and mature woman, accustomed to control and decorous behavior, whose world has just been upended by her own child. One of Volpe's favorite things

I loved Jerry, and I wanted to have his baby." She laughed. "This was before women started looking at their vaginas in hand mirrors and Gloria Steinem told us we could be more than just mothers.

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.

Si elle avait vécu, est-ce que j'aurais pu prendre le téléphone, là, tout de suite, l'appeler, lui dire je meurs de douleur, maman, je voudrais pleurer mais rien ne sort, rien ne sort, viens m'aider.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn't matter if you're a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you're Right, the Left is gonna hate.