1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Thanks for nothing, regular human mom. Footnote: nothing except for the unconditional love and support and meticulous care to make sure I faced the world fully informed about my body and reproductive health.

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.

If one movement of mercy is in hoping for its own diminishment, another must be toward its own expansion. The way of charity that the child calls us to--that you call me to--is a way that constantly magnifies, not because your needs multiply but because you call me to be open to the needs of others.

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

لو صحَّ أن نحكم على القلوب بقلب الأم لبدت القلوب أحجاراً.. إنَّه رجل و ليس حزن الرجال كحزن النساء. . لو استسلم الرجال للأحزان لناءت بهم كواهلهم المثقلة بالأعباء.. عليك إذا أنست منه حزناً أن تسري عنه.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house.

¨I am Lady, and still your mother.¨

There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.