1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Parents say they’ll do anything for their children, including take a bullet. This is me saying I’d go through cancer treatment, and even laugh for them.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue.

I observed her, amazed and disappointed, and determined to not be like her, to become truly different and so show her that it was useless and cruel to frighten us with her repeated 'You will never ever ever see me again'; instead she should have changed for real, or left home for real, left us, disappeared. How I suffered for her and for myself, how ashamed I was to have come out of the belly of such an unhappy person.

The mother of any species is loving and tender toward her young but fiercely protective whenever they are threatened. What has happened to the female of our species?

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

Lydia siempre ha sido una madre devota, pero nunca codependiente, como esas madres que extrañan a sus hijos cuando están en la escuela o cuando duermen. Siempre atesoró ese tiempo para sí, para habitar sus propios pensamientos y descansar del incesante clamor emocional de la maternidad.

I have my fingerprints all over you.& I don't need the world to see themto know that they're there.

The sound of nails against wood as Birdie looked up, watched as her mother crawled on all fours across the ceiling, her mouth drawn into a smile, her eyes missing.

I guess there are as many ways to mother someone as there are mothers.