264 quotes found
“What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?”
“Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.”
“There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.”
“Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity.”
“Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.”
“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.”
“A challenging career suddenly seemed more productive to me because I could measure the results of my work. These precious little ones had endless needs. They were busy little sinful creatures who d...”
“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 thi...”
“I respond to many names.Sometimes I am different people.Sometimes I am the me that howls in the night.Sometimes I am the sickening silence.I wear moonlight in my hair and bare my teeth.”
“Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding exp...”
“Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive prin...”
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
“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 ...”
“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right...”
“A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.”
“She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word...”
“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 ...”
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.”
“New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland.- Being a mother is one of the most rewarding jobs on earth and also one of the most challenging.- Motherhood is a pro...”
