264 quotes found
“One unforeseen advantage of having a child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.”
“When tadpole was born, I spent a sleepless night on the maternity ward gazing intently into her inky, newborn eyes, grappling to come to terms with the indisputable fact that this was an actual per...”
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
“Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.”
“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”
“Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling indus...”
“You don't take a class you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience. ”
“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment. ”
“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”
“Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.”
“There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.”
“Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.”
“You’ll sacrifice for your child in ways you had never imagined. And they’re not exciting and earth shattering ways, either. They’re small, seemingly insignificant gestures that mean the world to them.”
“If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that t...”
“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about ...”
“It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before ...”
“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think...”
“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.”
