Motherhood Quotes - Page 28

• Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We've at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Night, Space

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• I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.

  Angelina Jolie

  Home, School, Kids

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• Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.

  Busy Philipps

  Mom, Pregnancy, People

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• I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.

  Tilda Swinton

  Baby, Remember, Curious

  "Tilda Swinton: 'I didn't speak for five years'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Your children teach you so much. It's a real mirror of yourself.

  Kate Hudson

  Children, Real, Mirrors

  "Celeb Moms Speak Out on Joys of Motherhood". Interview with Donna Freydkin, abcnews.go.com. May 10, 2008.

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• I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.

  Sarah Dessen

  Beach, Writing, Clouds

  "Goodreads YA Interview - Sarah Dessen". Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. May 2015.

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• The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

  Meryl Streep

  Husband, Careers, Years

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby.

  Eva Mendes

  Baby, Struggle, Cake

  Interview with Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey, www.violetgrey.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
  Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
  And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
  Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
  And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Stars, Work

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

  Caroline Norton

  Mother, Born, Unmarried

  "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.

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• We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Knowing, Suffering

  "Hypatia". Book by Dora Russell, ch. 4, 1925.

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• I'm loving motherhood. It's way harder than soccer, but I love a challenge.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Challenges, Way

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.

  Ben Lindsey

  Mother, Children, Married

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.

  Julie Ann Barnhill

  Mom, Children, Together

  Julie Ann Barnhill (2011). “Confessions of an Imperfect Mom: God's Path to Less Guilt and More Grace”, p.103, Harvest House Publishers

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• Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

  Nita Ambani

  Challenges, World, Vocation

  "Ever wonder if you’ll make it through motherhood?" by Linda G, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2017.

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

  George Eliot

  Vanity, Self, Giving

  George Eliot (1876). “Scenes of clerical life”, p.267

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• motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

  Adrienne Rich

  Assumption, Mesh, Relation

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Identity, Female

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Work, Leader, Political

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• As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Zero, Work, Average

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• it used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now, or have you ever, contemplated marriage, motherhood, or the violent overthrow of the U.S. government?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Government, Female

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

  Martha Wainwright

  Track, Trying, Wanted

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Party, Thinking, People

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• Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

  Barbara Johnson

  Easy, Labor, Ifs

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.175, Zondervan

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