1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Maybe we can all be divided along this rift: Those who have been lucky enough to keep our children, and those who have had them taken away from us.p 174

Dantzel had just been accepted to the Julliard School of Music when the desire for marriage preempted her accepting. She ultimately exchanged a promising future in music for the privilege of singing lullabies to her little ones.

The way a crane creates, then erases itself, from the skyline." He'd been referring to how I, as a copywriter, created R.H. Macy's, but the same metaphor might easily have been applied to how I, as a mother, was creating my son.

She sacrifices her dreams to make my dream come true.

When the whole world made me think that,I can't do it,Thanks for making me, believe that,I can do it.

She could not, she had thought as she bent to kiss the baby's flushed cheek, have loved this child more if it had come from her own flesh.

Always, always, always love your mother.No one else will ever love you like she does.

I've seen it before, what mothers and daughters can do to one another during those terrible adolescent years. Grief must be at the bottom of it, for what is sadder for a parent than seeing her daughter shedding girlhood drop by precious drop? And what is more terrifying for a child than to doubt her mother, to begin to see her as a human with faults instead of as a goddess?

I’d spent my twenties constructing a hard, certain self on the foundations of boldness, ambition, an ardent sense of justice, a lean and muscled body, and now pregnancy is a confusing tumble into uncertainty, interiority, quietness.