Quotes on Motherhood

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

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.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.