1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

If I had known what it meant to love, I wouldn't have had children, because once we love, we love forever, like Uncle Two's wife, Step-aunt Two, who can't stop loving her gambler son, the son who is burning up the family fortune like a pyromaniac.

I used to fear their deaths--the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!--until I realized it need never be a problem: on the trolley, on the way to the mortuary, I would put my hands into their ribs and take their hearts and swallow them, and give birth to them again, so that they would never, ever end.

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

For a long time, I tried to make my ilfe work, to make our family work. I got tired, though. Five children wears you out until the only thing left inside you, the only thing you've got to give, is a memory of what you thought you'd be.

في الفجر عادت نار روحي تشتعلْبين الضلوعْوتسلقتْ فوق الفروعْففتحتُ عيني كي أراني في ابتساريكالجنين مُكسّرَ الأعضاء أنهض في انكساري،ثم أترك راحتي في كف أمي..تكتملْ.!