1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.

I think I would scream too if someone violently jammed a big ass breast in my mouth.

The physical relief of having fully drained boobs cannot be overstated.

Heaven is the feeling of hand warmers on sore nipples.

People say all the time that they’d do anything for the people they love. But would you really? Would you do anything? Would you give everything? I don’t know that a child knows that kind of selfless love. A mother, yes. A mother will clutch her children and jump from a moving car to keep them from harm. She will do it without thinking. But I don’t think the child knows how to do that, not instinctively. It’s something the child has to learn.

This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual consciousness and from breaking through the barriers of sexual repression, of keeping alive their sexual anxieties and guilt feelings. The very existence of woman as a sexual being would threaten authoritarian ideology; her recognition and social affirmation would mean its collapse.

I see my mother exactly as she is – sad and strong, tense and trying.

-she loved Lily Cate like her own, and for this night, this moment, she would be her mother, even though there was no guarantee of tomorrow.

Don't be afraid of the dark.