Motherhood Quotes - Page 10

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

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.

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

Coco is the greatest part of my life. I love everything about being a mom, but our talks and walks on the beach are my favorite moments.

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with my life.

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.

I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.

There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

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

The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on the passage from religion toward faith, from self-medication to sobriety, from daughterhood to motherhood, from being the disembodied 'good girl' to embracing her own bad lesbian self. In crisp chapters, Seaton leads us, step-by-step, over this harrowing and blissful road, so distinct from yet so much like our own.

Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Motherhood is always an act of courage.