Motherhood Quotes - Page 9

• One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Graves

  'A Poet's Epitaph' (1800)

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• I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Priorities, Healthy

  "Beyonce Thinks Blue Ivy 'needs Company'" By Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 6, 2013.

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• It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

  Jay Leno

  Life, Mother, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Thinking, Perfect

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• A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mother, Children, Gone

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books

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• Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beautiful, Mother, Peace

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• My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods - except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.

  Jessica Biel

  Mom, Mother, Hippie

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Powerful, Heart

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.21, Penguin

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• Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Believe, Tasks

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit children and then rearing those children so they will serve the Lord and keep his commandments. ...Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to the rearing and fostering, the nurturing of body, mind, and spirit of those who kept their first estate and who came to this earth for their second estate to learn and be tested.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

  Lisa Unger

  Circles, Bye, Good Bye

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• I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Love Is, Thinking, Light

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• Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Mother, Children, Loss

  Karen Joy Fowler (2015). “Black Glass: Short Fictions”, p.42, Penguin

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

  Anna Quindlen

  Female, Made, Hyper

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

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• That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Pride, Trying

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

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• Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.

  Richelle Mead

  Tattoo, Honor, Why Not

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.65, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Eye, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Feelings, Movement

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• Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Real, Choices

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• There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mother, Voice, Tears

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.223, Random House

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• It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

  Viola Davis

  Inspirational, Heartbreaking, Moments

  "'Won't Back Down': 2 Moms Fight to Save a Failing School". Interview with Marisa Fox, www.redbookmag.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”

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• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Depression, Patience

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