1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

A new root had grown and in its winding search it had gripped a part of life that she had never experienced before. Her love for the child was overwhelming and gave her a new depth of purpose; the world now grasped her in a more substantial fashion. Held fast to its shifting and the rolling lurch of its futures.

The complete and absolute rightness of his existence flooded into my life like a pot of golden poster paint tipped all over a white floor.

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery.

by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class

Each flower must emerge from the darkness to bathe in the light." Mary recalled her mother's words, as well as the emotional inflection she had used to express them. Mama had always sounded as if she were singing. If her voice had been a season, it would have been spring, for there had been such hope in Mama's words.

When the last woman dies, the last man dies!

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

Right mothering meets the child’s need. Focusing on what the child should not be draws resistant energy. Pointing out what the child should be feeds self-hatred and struggle.

Take a child away from a mother and she will bring the world to its knees for justice to be served.