1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Mama used to work three jobs, only used to see her in the night ela é meu herói.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?

My mom's attitude was, "I choose you, kid. I brought you into this world, and I'm going to give you everything I never had." She poured herself into me.

That you are not mine to possess, that you are not mine to craft and shape, that you are a gift to me, means that you can also be a divine presence to me. When you call to me in your need, that is God's call to me as well. The space I give you to grow and flourish becomes also the space for my own growth and flourishing.

Yes, we learn from adults. But we get the purest lessons from our toddlers.

Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood.

My heart is so much more than it once was, even if it now beats outside my chest.