Motherhood Quotes - Page 2

What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

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

I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify.

Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how often did I have to learn that? The lessons were painful.

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there’d been a mistake and she was after all.

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age.

You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen

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.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

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

But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. Every step of his life, and me not there to see him walk.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

There's a reason why the assumed goal for women in virginity-movement screeds is marriage and motherhood only: The movement only believes that's the only thing women are meant for.

Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.