Quotes and Sayings about Motherhood
"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Art, Detail, Devotion, Motherhood, Self)
"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
(Related: Act, Fashion, Joy, Motherhood, Woman)
"The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it."
- Victoria Billings
(Related: Women, Motherhood)
"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."
- Victoria Billings
(Related: Fulfillment, Motherhood, Woman)
"The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent."
- Joan Blades
(Related: Purpose, Ability, Motherhood, Mothers)
"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Love)
"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother."
- Joan Chen
(Related: Mother, Motherhood, Play, Study, Thinking)
"The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice."
- Susan Chira
(Related: Advice, Burden, Motherhood)
"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."
- Laurel Clark
(Related: People, Memories, Motherhood, Seasons, University, Years)
"With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood."
- Isadora Duncan
(Related: Glory, Motherhood)
"Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots."
- Crystal Eastman
(Related: Love, Women, Work, Feminism, Independence, Motherhood, Want)
"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent."
- Barbara Ehrenreich
(Related: Thought, Career)
"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."
- Cass Elliot
(Related: Motherhood, Now, Want, World)
"Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding."
- Gloria Estefan
(Related: Motherhood)
"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?"
- Emma Goldman
(Related: Mother, Morality, Motherhood)
"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
- Paul Harris
(Related: Sympathy, Motherhood)
"Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand."
- Helen Hunt Jackson
(Related: God, Man, May, Motherhood)
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
- Barbara Kingsolver
(Related: Strength, Laws, Motherhood)
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."
- Jessica Lange
(Related: Mother, Children, Motherhood, State, Universe)
"The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence."
- Jane Lazarre
(Related: Motherhood)
"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."
- Tea Leoni
(Related: People, First, Motherhood)
"I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me."
- Art Linkletter
(Related: Love, People, Bible, American, Dogs, Motherhood)
"Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science."
- Melinda M. Marshall
(Related: Art, Science, Motherhood)
"The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it."
- Sellapan Ramanathan
(Related: Peace, Progress, Motherhood, Prosperity, Question)
"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."
- Meg Ryan
(Related: Motherhood)
"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race."
- Margaret Sanger
(Related: Accident, Children, Deep, Ignorance, Motherhood, Race, Result, Will, Yearning)
"Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth."
- Victoria Secunda
(Related: Daughter, Hearing, Moments, Motherhood, Rank, Words)
"Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do."
- Jane Seymour
(Related: Crisis, Motherhood)
"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."
- Sissy Spacek
(Related: Family, Act, Motherhood, Project, Value, Years)
"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Effect, Motherhood)
"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
(Related: Mother, Fiction, Motherhood, Mothers, Value)
"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."
- Anne Tyler
(Related: Life, Age, Work, Influence, Middle age, Motherhood)
"Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation."
- Jody Watley
(Related: Change, Career, Kids, Motherhood, Now, Passion, Perspective, Woman)
"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."
- Rebecca West
(Related: Being, Motherhood)
"I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha."
- Natalie Wood
(Related: Motherhood)