Anna Quindlen Quotes About Motherhood

Quotes about: Motherhood

• The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.

  Anna Quindlen

  Motherhood, Two, Apples

• The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

  Anna Quindlen

  Family, Mom, Daughter

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.113, Ballantine Books

• We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

  Anna Quindlen

  Motherhood, Female, Made

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.312, Random House

• The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific andtorturous, involving and utterly tedious, all at the same time. The world is full of women made to feel strange because what everyone assumes comes naturally is so difficult to do--never mind to do well.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Motherhood, Childhood

• The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Talking

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.36, Random House

• I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

  Anna Quindlen

  Motherhood, Thinking, I Can

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

• I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

  Anna Quindlen

  Motherhood, Knows, Written

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