Quotes About Motherhood

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

Becoming a mom makes politics real. Whether it's education policies, health care policies, family leave - it informs your decision-making.

I can't stand small babies. I would rather give birth to a kitten or a colt... a little pony.

I drive the car pool - I show up with no makeup and drive the kids to school.

One doesn't necessarily have to be grey-haired to portray a mother.

I used to be very into fitness and would happily pose for photos in my bikini. Now I look at those and think, 'Where did that body go?' But that was before children.

I did go through a bit of a dark time during the years I was trying to be a mom. But I'm basically a very positive person.

I haven't had any injuries since I've had my kid, so I think it's changed my body externally and internally. I don't know what it is, but I hadn't felt so great, body-wise, until I had my kid. I look more in shape, and I feel more in shape. And speaking from a confidence side, it's changed me in such a positive way.

Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

I am really bad at being a mom. I think it's hard for me to be a mom. I do my best. I am not the poster child for being a mother, I will say that. I wish I was.

All three of my kids grew up seeing me on posters.

I went back to work about six weeks after I gave birth, which was crazy early, and experienced some pretty bad postpartum depression but didn't know it at the time.

I talk about postpartum depression and all these things I don't hear a lot of women talking about on TV.

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.

I truly did deal with postpartum depression and no one pointed it out to me, and when you are in it you don't know. I figured it out later on my own.

My mum, Doris, was a source of unalloyed love. She lived for her family and would literally give you her last pound. I think she's made me a kinder person, because I think: Do I want to help this person? If my mum was around, she would have.

My mom, she cooks the best pound cakes in the world.

I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.

I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.

As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.

When I had a baby, I was consumed with my body.