1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

We did not yet entirely understand that Mother, as imagined and politicized by the Societal System, was a delusion. The world loved the delusion more than it loved the mother.

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself. And the best way I can do this is to be who I am and hope that he will learn from this not how to be me, which is not possible, but how to be himself. And this means how to move to that voice from within himself, rather than to those raucous, persuasive, or threatening voices from outside, pressuring him to be what the world wants him to be.

Mia held her for a moment, buried her nose in the part of Pearl's hair. Every time she did this, she was comforted by how Pearl smelled exactly the same. She smelled, Mia thought suddenly, of home, as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.

They were both parents of twins now but it was her body that had been sacrificed.

Details that almost nobody else would have found interesting in the slightest, the mundane, tedious minutiae, given a new significance in their post-birth world, where each choice they made, however small, seemed life-alteringly crucial.

প্রেম গোপন রাখাতে যে গভীর আনন্দ আছে তার থেকে আমি তাকে বঞ্চিত করতে যাব কেন? শুনেছি প্রথম গর্ভধারণ করে বহু মাতা সেটা যত দিন পারে গোপন রাখে। নিভৃতে আপন মনে সেই ক্ষুদ্র শিশুটির কথা ধ্যান করতে করতে সে চলে যায় স্বর্গলোকপানে, যেখান থেকে মুখে হাসি নিয়ে নেমে আসবে এই শিশুটি। 

You won't spoil your newborn if you hold them as much as you want to.

I figure staging a solid wedding is the least I can do after she literally 3D-printed my body.

On Loving a child: "It wasn't a new key for the same song. It wasn't a new speed in the same lane. It wasn't an adjective she could name." - Lainey