Motherhood Quotes - Page 9

You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.

It's incredible. Everything you ever thought about love just becomes night and day. I mean, you never thought you could love that much. You rediscover the world, and it's just a beautiful thing.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.

I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.

I was always confident and comfortable. But motherhood is what really made me feel beautiful.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!

When children are little, they really need you in one way. When they're bigger, they need you as a friend. And balancing motherhood and career makes you both a better mother and a better businesswoman.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

Necessity, mother of invention.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.