1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

The pain of knowing that you witnessed the very first moment of the beautiful person's life, and that, one day, hopefully at least a hundred years from now, there will inevitably be a last moment.

I could read my nonexistence in the clothes my mother had worn before I can remember her.

The fabric of me is mother.The weft and warp,woman.Loosely woven,I am free.

The mother provides a spiritwith a womb and nurtures it for months before birth, andyears thereafter.

She felt bad for them, that nature had taken away their loving home and put her there in its place; that they'd been pulled from her uterus and placed in her arms, where she was the only thing standing between them and oblivion, them and failure, them and disappointment.

Improving maternal outcomes means valuing women not only as reproductive engines but also as human beings - something that is still, quite apparently, a problem.

What my sister needed was not people urging her, as so many did, to get pregnant again as soon as possible, but acknowledgment of her loss and the violence that she experienced in that loss. She needed to know that this was not a failure or that she was a bad mother. She needed to be allowed to be not only sad but also, in her grief, to be angry. But as Gunther explained, "Society does not like to hear from us castaway mothers.

The challenge we face is in being unapologetic about our desires and decisions and in not judging other women's choices. It is in rechanneling the anger, guilt, and shame that we often encounter into creating a culture that no longer conflates the word woman with mother and the word mother with sacrifice.

Was this love, this fear of them dying?