1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

  • Author Jackie Kay
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    They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

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  • Author Katha Pollitt
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    We may revere motherhood, the hazy abstraction, the cream-of-wheat-with-a-halo ideal, but a mother is just a kind of woman, after all, and women are trouble and not so valuable. Low-income mothers drag down the country—why'd they have kids if they couldn't support them? Middle-class mothers are boring frumps. Elite ones are obsessed sanctimommies.

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  • Author Hpm
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    whoever has grown without a mother has missed half of his/her lifetime

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  • Author C. JoyBell C.
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    Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally feed her baby with her body! In my eyes, this is a certain form of beauty, of divinity! To know that my body can not only form and bring another human being into the world, but that I can actually feed babies with my own milk from my own breasts— that puts me in a state of awe each time I think about it. It is an honour to be a woman.

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  • Author Jodi Picoult
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    Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.

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  • Author Dogen Zenji
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    At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

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