Quotes About Motherhood

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.

Motherhood is a constant battle of wanting to go to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and wanting to stay awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!

Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

I am so ready to be a mommy. I can't wait. I notice every little baby dress, every little baby toy, every little baby thing.

You know what they say when a supermodel gets pregnant? Now she's eating for one.

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.

Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can't remember me.

Bless your mum, who carried you for nine months in her womb.

It's not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It's my God who made me qualified when I became a mom.

Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows.

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

Ellie's son, Nicholas,

We have expectations of our friends. I thought she was gone forever, off to Baby World, like all the other people in my life who've had children: Miriam,

Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.