Motherhood Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Motherhood

Motherhood Quotes & Sayings

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Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal. — Nicholas Sparks

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. — Iris Marion Young

My mother is a living angel; she is always protecting me with the wings of her love. — Debasish Mridha

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. — Margaret Sanger

Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches! — Constance Marie

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus. — Drew Barrymore

Go hug a nursing mom -- but not too hard. Her boobs may hurt. — Cassi Clark

Women who miscalculate are called mothers. — Abigail Van Buren

1. Motherhood is hard
2. Motherhood is glorious
3. Motherhood is hard — Lisa-Jo Baker

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation. — L. Tom Perry

I believe in the Motherhood of God. — Elbert Hubbard

Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting; Focus on the uniqueness of every Child. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A mother's love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends. — Kelly DeBie

Sometimes it's not a spiritual problem; you just need a nap! — Pam Farrel

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Motherhood is a blissful chain ... I have a mother - my precious gift ... I am a mother - the best of my kind! — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Godly mother's seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world. — L.R. Knost

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand. — James T. Farrell

Don't be afraid of the dark. — Mark Andrew Poe

Make room for who you are by knowing who you're not. — Abby Fabiaschi

Necessity, mother of invention. — William Wycherley

I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother. — Erin Passons

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood. — Zoe Tapper

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings — Euripides

Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother. — A. Theodore Tuttle

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. — Jodi Picoult

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth - it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife. — Pratik Patil

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before. — Ellen Greene

Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one. — Lionel Shriver

There are lots of ways to lose yourself - motherhood's just one of them. — Claire Fontaine

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. — Alan Beck

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child. — Osamu Dazai

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head. — Emma Donoghue

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. — Swami Vivekananda

That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so. — Barbara Kingsolver

My mother was the making of me. — Thomas A. Edison

Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children. — Jane Austen

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. — Meryl Streep

For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now. — Preeti Shenoy

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives. — Romola Garai

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt. — Felicity Huffman

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. — Kate Winslet

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. — Mike Wallace

My most important title is still "mom-in-chief." My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world. — Michelle Obama

Don't 'should' on yourself, instead, replace it with 'could'
and add an alternative option. — Amber Khan

Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around. — Abby Fabiaschi

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. — Nia Vardalos

It's the angle. You can't see me from where you're standing. — Susan Rieger

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves. — Karen Maezen Miller

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess. — Mahatma Gandhi

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals. — Elisabeth Badinter

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — Simone De Beauvoir

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be. — Rebecca Wells

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him. — Donna VanLiere

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back. — Shannon Celebi

Got anything to eat?" I asked.

"You know where the gas station is," said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother. — Susan Juby

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake. — Erma Bombeck

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in. — David Mitchell

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work. — Edward Carpenter

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short. — Susan Mitchell

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive. — Charlotte Pearson

On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother. — Cassandra Page

If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means. — Seanan McGuire

Young, new moms need coffee to survive. Older moms with teenagers need cocktails. — Sandra Lake

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously. — Emma Donoghue

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing. — Kelly Cutrone

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever. — Dorothy Koomson

Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really? — Kimberly Guilfoyle

Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be. — Eleesha

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience. — Jennie Finch

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before — Jhumpa Lahiri

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you. — Amit Kalantri

You don't get your prebaby body back, ever, because you cannot go back to being a person who hasn't had a baby. Because you had a baby. — Wednesday Martin

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own. — Joan Rivers

The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ. — Gloria Furman

Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood. — Girish Kohli

Always-
the sharp,
plaintive edge
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions') — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. — Victoria Secunda

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now. — Anna Quindlen

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be. — Trevor Noah

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins. — Mona Simpson

I always thought my mother was so damn cute! — Kate Hudson

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage — Louisa May Alcott

Exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood, — Diana Gabaldon

Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed. — Sandra Chami Kassis

If nursing were easy, there wouldn't be so many helpful products. — Cassi Clark

My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children. — Melissa B. Kruger

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat. — George Eliot

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing. — Jessica Simpson

Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom. — Linda Becker

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. — Barbara Walters

America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat.

Sarah Mullen — Erin Passons