Quotes About Motherhood

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life and I think most people feel that way.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

I dig being a mother.

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.