Motherhood Quotes

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. (Rebecca West)
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. View quote
Robert Browning
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death. View quote
Germaine Greer
In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood. View quote
Bethenny Frankel
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. View quote
Esther Duflo
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?' View quote
Allison Pearson
Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing. View quote
Kelly Cutrone
Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people. View quote
Laurel Clark
First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people. View quote
Tea Leoni
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. (Barbara Kingsolver)
I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful." View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow
Our religion [Islam] has defined a position for women: motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love - and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, ‘I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won't breathe in front of my enemies.' Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion towards everyone is as much part of their being as breathing. View quote
Mata Amritanandamayi
We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Motherhood is such an evolving journey. View quote
Solange Knowles
As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering of the world much more deeply. (Tsultrim Allione)
Motherhood changes everything. View quote
Adriana Trigiani
Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it. View quote
Diane Keaton
This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. View quote
Jessica Lange