Quotes About Motherhood

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

I think," she said at last, "that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world.

Ma il silenzio amoroso tra una madre e un figlio non è una dimensione solitaria.

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.

Noi ne-am n?scut în timp ce mamele noastre r?cneau de durere.

The child would wake in the night to her mother's dream cries-a man coming to steal her, steal her child, steal her payment-and her mother would not eat, only hunch over the bowel and scry, and follow the girl about with haunted eyes.

Pray no one is clever enough to look beyond the child to her mother and the terrible ambition there.

I can't tell you what is right," she said, "but I can tell you what is expected by others, and by this child. It doesn't matter what she calls you. Mom or Tante or Aud, if legally you are her mother, somewhere inside she will expect you to behave as one. It doesn't matter if this is likely, or even possible, it is what she will expect.

This is your wyrd," Hild said. "You'll be a queen. You'll have children.

She was taller than all the unmatched girls, even the ones with breast buds, just as her mother was taller than the queen and Cian was unusually tall for a boy with a wealh mother.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

I nodded, not yet realizing that as far as the world was concerned, what was best for the baby could mean something entirely different from what was best for me.

Someone had told her once that mothers existed to blunt the existential loneliness of being a person. If that was true then her biggest maternal responsibility was simply companionship. You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking beside them while they figure out how to be a person.

You stay home and raise daughters, who grow up and get jobs and then feel pity for you, their stay-at-home mothers.

Every modern woman who rejects the double standard, who combines a career with life as a mother, who demands personal

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

They forced you to have kids?" the man asked. "One of them surprised me," she said. "It made me pregnant, then told me about it. Said it was giving me what I wanted but would never come out and ask for." "Was it?" "Yes." She shook her head from side to side. "Oh, yes. But if I had the strength not to ask, it should have had the strength to let me alone.

I am so thankful to MOTHER for making my ordinary life extraordinary. MOTHER - Multiplied Opportunities Through Her Endless Reinvention.

Her heart was bleeding for David Copperfield. Laurel never read David Copperfield when her mother was with her. Today the book, as usual, would be returned to its hiding place behind the cushion in the little parlor when she had finished with it.

A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.

The woman about to become a mother, or with her newborn infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden or stretches her aching limbs.... God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, unadvisedly or selfishly.