1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Becoming A Mother: I'm so sorry it was my life you landed in. This is it. This is who you got. I'll do my best.

Dignitaries may sign treaties, but wars never end. Oil dries and bombs run out, but never a mother's tears.

For months, I vacillated between life and death. In front of me—I, who had returned from the threshold of death—were three figures: of my husband, whom I had served with my thoughts, words and deeds, and my wifehood; of my son, whom I had carried for ten months, given birth to and raised, and my motherhood; and of this pot, the result of my focus and my art. All three are the same. They are shattered by the slightest cause and life hangs on a sword’s edge.

Motherhood,” she says, “despite being immensely common, remains the greatest mystery, and all the language people use to describe it, kitschy words like ‘comfort’ and ‘loving arms’ and ‘nursing,’ is to convince women to stay put.

A good mom has bad days & great days & normal days & overwhelming days & perfect days & trying days & supermom days & just being a mom days & a whole lot of love & real & crazy motherhood days.

A Real Mom:Emotional, yet the rock.Tired, but keeps going.Worried, but full of hope.Impatient, yet patient.Overwhelmed, but never quits.Amazing, even though doubted.Wonderful, even in the chaos.Life changer, every single day.

Menstruation annoys the most females who lack the desire to someday fall pregnant.

I was not afraid of darknessWhen I was in you.

But why does she want them, really? Because Susan has them? Because the Salem bookstore manager has them? Because she always vaguely assumed she would have them herself? Or does the desire come from some creaturely place, pre-civilized, some biological throb that floods her bloodways with the message Make more of yourself! To repeat, not to improve.