Motherhood Quotes

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'

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

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

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

I just love motherhood.

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.