1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.

...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.

Every working mother has the things she dreads, things that keep her up in the night – pink eye, an ear infection, the parent-teacher conference, the school play – all forcing her to remind the people she works with that she is not, in fact, wholly devoted to business enterprises, but has another secret life. For me, the night terror is the 5 a.m. phone call from the nanny.