Top 100 Quotes About Motherhood

#1. You only confuse hope with power once in life.

Abby Fabiaschi

Quotes About Motherhood #1459
#2. 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 thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

Donna Ball

Quotes About Motherhood #2240
#3. Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

Jodi Picoult

Quotes About Motherhood #3328
#4. Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Quotes About Motherhood #3821
#5. My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

Jade Jagger

Quotes About Motherhood #4786
#6. No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.

Jessie Bernard

Quotes About Motherhood #10070
#7. Mothers always worry. There's no off switch.

Priscille Sibley

Quotes About Motherhood #14074
#8. 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

Quotes About Motherhood #15824
#9. My daughter asked me what it's like to have children ... So I followed her to the washroom every time she went and asked her questions through the door until she lost her S#!T ...

Tanya Masse

Quotes About Motherhood #16888
#10. A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Quotes About Motherhood #17704
#11. Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

Erma Bombeck

Quotes About Motherhood #17882
#12. A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Ann Coulter

Quotes About Motherhood #18121
#13. I can absolutely assure you that birth is nothing like holding an ice cube in your hand for a minute and breathing through the "pain.

Cassi Clark

Quotes About Motherhood #19511
#14. Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Romola Garai

Quotes About Motherhood #19980
#15. To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.

Debasish Mridha

Quotes About Motherhood #20592
#16. Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers ... but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

Erica Jong

Quotes About Motherhood #20672
#17. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

Nancy Thayer

Quotes About Motherhood #23245
#18. Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

Jessica Marais

Quotes About Motherhood #24886
#19. Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.

Nancy E. Turner

Quotes About Motherhood #26774
#20. An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time, child psychologists kept coming up with new responsibilities for parents that seemed to fall to the mother alone.

Elisabeth Badinter

Quotes About Motherhood #27963
#21. Even AWESOME MOMS use the F-BOMB!

Tanya Masse

Quotes About Motherhood #29129
#22. Lo, everything that made me pretty was intrinsic to motherhood, and my very desire that men find me attractive was the contrivance of a body designed to expel its own replacement.

Lionel Shriver

Quotes About Motherhood #29344
#23. Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.

Sydney Strand

Quotes About Motherhood #33994
#24. God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

Mary Pride

Quotes About Motherhood #35852
#25. Motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.

Melanie Shankle

Quotes About Motherhood #42061
#26. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

Quotes About Motherhood #42379
#27. Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

Felicity Huffman

Quotes About Motherhood #42544
#28. I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

Helen Mirren

Quotes About Motherhood #42704
#29. Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Paul Harris

Quotes About Motherhood #45396
#30. Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Quotes About Motherhood #47264
#31. Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

Nita Ambani

Quotes About Motherhood #48452
#32. We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child.

Doris Lessing

Quotes About Motherhood #48571
#33. I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

Kristin Hannah

Quotes About Motherhood #49342
#34. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Christina Greer

Quotes About Motherhood #50183
#35. A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.

Revathi Sankaran

Quotes About Motherhood #55264
#36. Each day we do the best we can, and then tomorrow we try again!

Alison Grace Johansen

Quotes About Motherhood #57099
#37. I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.

Joan Didion

Quotes About Motherhood #57627
#38. Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Monica Cruz

Quotes About Motherhood #57835
#39. The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.

Elisabeth Badinter

Quotes About Motherhood #61775
#40. MOM - noun - One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for LOVE!

Tanya Masse

Quotes About Motherhood #62016
#41. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.

Kelly Corrigan

Quotes About Motherhood #67460
#42. My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw

Charles Bukowski

Quotes About Motherhood #67935
#43. Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood.

Eleesha

Quotes About Motherhood #69722
#44. Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Quotes About Motherhood #74071
#45. Motherhood by definition means a journey into the depths of one's possibility.

H. L. Balcomb

Quotes About Motherhood #75582
#46. I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.

Jennifer Lopez

Quotes About Motherhood #76981
#47. Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

Joan Rivers

Quotes About Motherhood #77597
#48. Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Abigail Adams

Quotes About Motherhood #79328
#49. Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.
Kate: They're not 'gubs' they're 'gloves'
Aaden and Leah try and say gloves
Leah: Gloves!
Kate: Good job!
Aaden: Gubs!
Kate: No

Kate Gosselin

Quotes About Motherhood #80145
#50. To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Glenda Jackson

Quotes About Motherhood #82621
#51. Motherhood is a cliffhanger.

Laura Monagan

Quotes About Motherhood #91345
#52. Don't compare yourself to other MOMS ... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.

Tanya Masse

Quotes About Motherhood #93570
#53. Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations.

Gloria Furman

Quotes About Motherhood #93709
#54. 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.

Jessica Valenti

Quotes About Motherhood #100126
#55. One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

Ian Frazier

Quotes About Motherhood #107363
#56. Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.

Yiyun Li

Quotes About Motherhood #113711
#57. Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood.

Deanna Raybourn

Quotes About Motherhood #115451
#58. MOM - Mistress Of Miracles

Richelle E. Goodrich

Quotes About Motherhood #115560
#59. A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Quotes About Motherhood #116039
#60. I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

Anna Quindlen

Quotes About Motherhood #117879
#61. When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no-one will ever love you as much as a small child.

Nicola Horlick

Quotes About Motherhood #120500
#62. In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.

Bharati Mukherjee

Quotes About Motherhood #124007
#63. I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

Terri Blackstock

Quotes About Motherhood #131280
#64. Isolation can be a particular problem for mothers at home with small children. Mothers become isolated from each other because we fear judgement. Other mothers can be our harshest critics. And we anticipate that criticism and don't ask each other for help.

Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Quotes About Motherhood #132594
#65. I have always been their rock. A mother's unconditional love is fervent enough to battle against the gates of hell, rise up from her knees and stand gallant, in spite of her gaping war wounds. If only they knew the battle fought and the flood of tearshed without having to endure such agony.

Terry A. O'Neal

Quotes About Motherhood #133302
#66. Young, new moms need coffee to survive. Older moms with teenagers need cocktails.

Sandra Lake

Quotes About Motherhood #135455
#67. Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

Tess Gerritsen

Quotes About Motherhood #135586
#68. If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

Munia Khan

Quotes About Motherhood #137532
#69. Left to their own devices, women would stop having sex after they have children. There's no evolutionary need for it. Our brains know it, our body knows it. Who feels sexy during the slog of motherhood, the middle-aged fat roll and the flattening butt?

Maria Semple

Quotes About Motherhood #139486
#70. I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.

Robin Beth Schaer

Quotes About Motherhood #140246
#71. Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do - the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly at home, especially when children arrive on the scene.

Tiffany Dufu

Quotes About Motherhood #142847
#72. People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.

Anne Enright

Quotes About Motherhood #143311
#73. The outrageous madonna/whore duality that we mock in Women's Studies 101 has its subtle, and very insidious, expression in the good/bad mother paradigm that we grapple with every day of our lives.

Shannon Drury

Quotes About Motherhood #145703
#74. I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

Emma Donoghue

Quotes About Motherhood #145736
#75. Sarah had no intention of having nannies or anything like that. Her mother had sighed a bit, and said vaguely: 'I always find women who look after their own children get rather untidy and disorganised. Husbands hate it too'. Sometimes Sarah wanted to slap her face.

Josa Young

Quotes About Motherhood #146727
#76. Because I don't have a child and as much as you can sort of imagine it it's always nice to hear from all different walks of life what motherhood is like and what that feels like. And particularly young mothers.

Abbie Cornish

Quotes About Motherhood #150253
#77. A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Quotes About Motherhood #153725
#78. We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

Anna Quindlen

Quotes About Motherhood #155910
#79. Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.

Jodi Picoult

Quotes About Motherhood #156278
#80. Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says.
"Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.

Deborah Meyler

Quotes About Motherhood #158224
#81. It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

David Attenborough

Quotes About Motherhood #163956
#82. Sometimes being a MOM is like a good
ol' country song! You lose your sleep, you lose your hair, you lose your patience, you lose your energy, you lose your memory AND you lose your SANITY! But you DO IT all for LOVE!

Tanya Masse

Quotes About Motherhood #165739
#83. The man smiled. "Harry is unique, for he was born with a special gift of sight, with eyes able to see things that are unseen. He has talents to move matter by the sound of his voice.

Mark Andrew Poe

Quotes About Motherhood #166827
#84. Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

Lisa Unger

Quotes About Motherhood #169718
#85. What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.

Angelina Jolie

Quotes About Motherhood #172911
#86. I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

William Trevor

Quotes About Motherhood #174153
#87. The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

Anna Quindlen

Quotes About Motherhood #174873
#88. All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.

Peter Kreeft

Quotes About Motherhood #175158
#89. motherhood is like this: a series of tiny moments that add up to an enormous love, with lots of other moments of frustration and misunderstanding and complexity woven in between.

Allison Winn Scotch

Quotes About Motherhood #176162
#90. A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Quotes About Motherhood #181397
#91. Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise.

Marilynne Robinson

Quotes About Motherhood #184213
#92. In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?

Mary Blakely

Quotes About Motherhood #184594
#93. 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

Quotes About Motherhood #185189
#94. How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What's Wrong with the World)

John Eldredge

Quotes About Motherhood #189606
#95. Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

Pope John Paul II

Quotes About Motherhood #191814
#96. Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.

Caroline Leavitt

Quotes About Motherhood #192003
#97. Nobody ever told me that motherhood was temporary. You think you have years and years with them, but the truth is, you don't.

Adriana Trigiani

Quotes About Motherhood #195012
#98. 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.

Honore De Balzac

Quotes About Motherhood #199124
#99. Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother

Vivek Thangaswamy

Quotes About Motherhood #201999
#100. Motherhood was not for the weak.

Lisa Scottoline

Quotes About Motherhood #202081

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top