1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

That's the thing about babies: after you have one, all imagined alternatives to the past become tragedies.

There are many kinds of mothers," said the robot. "Some mothers spend their whole lives caring for their young. Some lay eggs and immediately abandon them. Some care for the offspring of other mothers. I have tried to act like your mother, but no, I am not your birth mother.

....I was a mother, whereas he would have been a father, and whether those two labels SHOULD mean the same thing - to the culture, to the parent in question, to the children themselves - in practice they usually do not.

She moves in my blood and whispers to me.

She had counted on a lifetime to teach her children what they needed to know, but she didn't have the gift of grace and time. Still, she had given them what mattered: they were loved and they knew it. Everything else was decoration. Love remains.

In choosing to carry a pregnancy, a woman gives of her body with a selflessness so ordinary that it goes unnoticed, even by herself.

Billie wanted to ask if motherhood was always that way- waiting for rest to find you, for parts of yourself to come back together.

And I decided when you were born that I would hide my heart from you, because I worried I would love you into nervous oblivion.

There’s only one person being buried, but she was many more women than that for those left behind.