Quotes About Motherhood

I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter. —Carl Jung

Yes, there had been many times I called my daughters back to zip up their coats. All the same, I knew they would rather be cold and free.

Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children.

When our father does the things he needs to do in the world, we understand it is his due. If our mother does the things she needs to do in the world, we feel she has abandoned us. It is a miracle she survives our mixed messages, written in society's most poisoned ink. It is enough to drive her mad.

My mother's words are my mirror. My laptop is my veil of shame. I hide in it all the time.

To do the things she had chosen to do in the world, she risked forfeiting her place as a wife and mother, a bewildering place haunted by all that had been imagined for her if she chose to sit in it.

Today, decide to see the world with your heart and not with your head. To imagine what that's like, think about how a mother feels towards her child. No matter how many ways the child may decide to be bad, it's mother doesn't change her love.

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

A mother's love is greater than a child's confusion.

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Er fragte diese sch? ne Yogini in seinem klaren Traum. "Bist du, die Yogini, ein weiblicher Yogi?" Yogini lächelte ihn an und sagte. "Ich bin mehr als ein weiblicher Yogi, Deodatta. Yogis entfliehen Kultur und Natur. Ich gebiere Kulturen und feiere die Natur. Ich verk? rpere das ganze Spektrum der Weiblichkeit, von der g? ttlichen Mutterschaft bis zur befreiten weiblichen Sexualität."

Here she is," her mum said, cooing at the baby, "my special girl." "Oh, cheers," Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.

Mum," she called, "we're out of milk." "Damn lazy cows," her mother muttered.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.