Quotes About Motherhood

My mother passed away when I was 19. She always made me feel confident, and I've carried that feeling with me my entire life. It's helped me in this industry, where people are sizing up your looks.

I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.

I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.

My mom passed away when I was 4 years old, and she came from a very conservative Korean background. I feel like my life would've been incredibly different had she still been alive.

I have a cousin who, at age 36, passed away from cancer, and she left three girls.

I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.

The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

Back in the old days it was considered normal to hand your two-month old baby to a nanny or some local lady with a houseful of brats. At the most, people kept a child until pre-school and sometimes pre-pre-school if there was a government program in place—Head Start or some such that did little besides destroying the concept of motherhood.

Annelere anlat?lan kederler taksim de?il, zarbedilmi? olur.

Felaketimizi ba?ka biriyle taksim etmek saadettir,fakat annelerle de?il,annelerle de?il.Annelere anlat?lan kederler taksim de?il,zarbedilmi? olur: Çocuklar?n?n felaketini iki kat ?iddetle hisseden anneler,bu ?st?raplar?n? çocuklar?na fazlas?yla iade ederler;böylece keder anadan çocu?a ve çocuktan anaya her intikal edi?inde büyüdükçe büyür.

what sort of mothers can these girls have? The answer would supply an explanation of, but no excuse for, our national decadence and degradation

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.

The clinical distrust of mothers, simply because they are women, the eagerness to bend over backwards to like fathers, simply because they are men is mind-numbing.

Mothers are often psychiatrically accused of alienating a child from the child's father if that child does not resent or hate the mother, or prefer the father.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

The mother of Jesus, I sometimes remember, was visited by an angel and is seen as a saint; the mother of the Buddha died at his birth. Is it any surprise that Buddhism is about learning to live with loss, while Christianity is about salvation from above?

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and talk about what it's like to be a writer. I often feel like I'm pretending, because it's still hard for me to believe it when I see someone holding a book that I've written.

I visited 20 countries while I was pregnant. I had to stop after my seventh month.

When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she's from. Frequent visits with her to see my extended family have taught me how different life can be if you are born into poverty.