1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Our afternoons together taught me that there was no formula for motherhood. No single approach could be deemed right or wrong. This was useful to see.

His body fills my arms and I think, Oh. So this is what my arms are for.

Maybe it was the insult of childbirth. Maybe it was the overwhelming unfairness of what happens to a woman’s status and body and position in the culture once she’s a mother. All those things can drive you crazy if you’re a smart person. If you are a smart woman, you cannot stand by and remain sane once you fully understand, as a smart woman does, the constraints of this world on a woman.

When a woman is breastfeeding, the first and only thought that should appear in your mind is that the purpose of those breasts is to nourish a life, but if your mind gets either contemptuous or sexual instead, then go home and try to figure out if you are a human.

Even late marriage and childbirth didn't seem to deter this new young population of women from continuing to hold down paid jobs.

Something untoward was happening to middle-class American women, an undercurrent of i change was seeping through heir ideas about duties and obligations as mothers, eroding their desire to conform to madonna-like models of unconditional devotion to the young child to adapt a more managerial concept of mother as coordinator and motivator of her child's activities and interests.

(Mum) has always been my rock, allowing me the freedom to be who I am, while never allowing my feet to get too far off the ground.

Determination, the benign cousin of defiance, drove Lucy to continue enlarging her family to compensate for her lost children.

The whole theme of motherhood and family life, with those sweet affections which illuminate it, must be the fountain spring of present happiness and future survival.