1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Eppure alla natura non ci si sottrae. Non si resiste impunemente alla natura, non si ama impunemente, non si ha impunemente un figlio: alla donna non è concessa l’impunità.

In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child.

She communicated all this with a raise of the eyebrows, a tired smile, the faintest eye roll and shake of the head. It was the universal mom sign for Look at this psycho he is breaking my spirit in some small way, every day, yet I still adore him and will go to the ends of the earth for him and also allow him to pretend to be a dog and wear a collar and I will walk him- I WILL WALK HIM- because I am a wonderful mother.

How many generations of women had delayed their greatness only to have time extinguish it completely? How many women had run out of time while the men didn’t know what to do with theirs? And what a mean trick to call such things holy or selfless. How evil to praise women for giving up each and every dream.

She knew enough to live inside an entire life all on her own, and yet her husband- with his electronics skills, his engineering- he was the one who made all the money, even though she could make a world, and then, too, make a person to live in that world.

To be a loving mother was to be known for a service, but to be a lovely mother was to possess a charm all your own.

The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another.

In the mirror that holds both of us, my dark hair shadows her fair, and there, I observe her reflected scowl at her mother: a real little girl.

What does it mean to love by degree? What does this say, too, about my place in my own children's love chain? Is this the cycle of life, then? To be prepared to be thrown under the bus, if necessary, by those you value most in the world?