The best part of having two babies at once, a son and a daughter, is mostly everything. You're just having that feeling of love inside you all the time and motherhood is such a fulfilling place to be. I kind of wish it would have happened to me earlier in my life.
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~
There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.
The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!
I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn't seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and she's still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness.
I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.
My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She's done everything for me to make my dreams come true.
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.
I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.
It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.
[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
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