1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smile, and in her wordless expression I saw gratitude, and relief, and trust. I wanted, desperately, not to disappoint her.

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.

I’ve never needed a sword to protect you—to raise you the way your father wanted. Caring for my family meant putting away the fighter, so I did.

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.