1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love.

A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood as natural, a patriarchal ideology of mothering locks women into biological reproduction, and denies them identities and selfhood outside mothering.

مادرها چه ماهیتی دارند؟ طرح های خام، لولوی سرخرمن، یا عروسک مومی ای که سنجاق به آن بزنند؟ راحتشان نمی گذاریم و وادارشان می کنیم خود را به میل ما، به خاطر گرسنگی، هوس ها و نقص هایمان، شکل دهند. تا وقتی خودم مادر نشدم این را نمی فهمیدم.

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age.

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child? The gentle, smiling ones own the good secret. Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make flesh that holds fast and binds eternity.

Oh, that boy is in so much trouble.' Exie screeches out of the parking lot as if Jerran can hear her.

Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had a kid... I was still me, with all my holes and problems and questions - only now I was also exhuasted and had a lot more laundry to do.