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Quotes About Motherhood
•“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.” 
― Jodi Picoult
•“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.” 
― Jodi Picoult
•“The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.” 
― Nancy E. Turner
•Grown don't mean nothing to a mother.  A child is a child.  They get bigger, older, but grown?  What's that suppose to mean?  In my heart it don't mean a thing.”
― Toni Morrison
•“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
― Honore de Balzac 
•“A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.” 
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer
•“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln
•“Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.” 
― Iris Marion Young
•“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”
― Honore de Balzac 
•“I think motherhood is the noblest task of all, because you cannot do it at your convenience, or tailor it to suit your preferences. You have to be ready to give up everything when you take on this task: your time, restful nights, your hobbies, your pursuit of physical fitness, any beauty you may have had, and all of the private little pleasures you might have counted as a right, from late dinners and long soaks in the tub to weekend excursions and cycling trip I'm not saying you can't have any of these things, but you have to be ready to let them all go if you're going to have children and put them first.” 
― Johann Christoph Arnold
•“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” 
― Aristotle
•“I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.” 
― Jodi Picoult
•“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.” 
― Linda Wooten
•“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.” 
― Margaret Sanger
•“A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.  And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.”
― Victoria Secunda
•“Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.” 
― Jodi Picoult
•“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.” 
― Abraham Lincoln
•“Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.” 
― Fulton J. Sheen
•“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”
― Margaret Sanger 
•“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. "Pro-maternity" propaganda has rarely been so extreme. They must be joking, the modern equivalent of the double constraint: "Have babies, it's wonderful, you'll feel more fulfilled and feminine than ever," but do it in a society in freefall in which waged work is a condition of social survival but guaranteed to no one, and especially not to women. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.” 
― Virginie Despentes
•“The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.” 
― Karen Maezen Miller
•“There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” 
― James E. Faust
•“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
― Sophia Loren
•“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ” 
― Abigail Adams
•“Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.”
― Robert Brault
•“In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.” 
― N.K. Jemisin
•“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.”
― Jessica Lange 
•“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.”
― Washington Irving
•“And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.” 
― Thrity Umrigar
•“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.”
― Charles Stanley 
•“Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.” 
― Bella Pollen
•“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.”
― Mildred B. Vermont
•“A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response, her attitude, even her appearance and manner of dress affect the lives of her children and the whole family. It is while the child is in the home that he gains from his mother the attitudes, hopes, and beliefs that will determine the kind of life he will live and the contribution he will make to society.” 
― N. Eldon Tanner
•“No one in the world can take the place of your mother.  Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right.  She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.”
― Harry Truman
•“A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.” 
― Sarah Strohmeyer
•“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.”
― Lisa Alther
•“I'm blessed and I couldn't be more grateful. Do you want to know why? Because I'm a mother, but that's only half of it. I'm blessed because, when I need to, I can still just be a daughter. I get the feeling that there is nothing more precious than to have both of these roles, simultaneously.” 
― Adrianna Stepiano
•“She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.” 
― Nicole Krauss
•“Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.” 
― Claire Fontaine
•“by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class” 
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
•“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” 
― Victor Hugo
•“No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless.” 
― Isabella Macdonald Alden
•“The mother's heart is the child's school-room.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
•“There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.” 
― Julie B. Beck
•“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
― Honoré de Balzac
•“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is...and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.” 
― Donna Ball
•“When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected to all people. She is part of keeping us on earthnot the "us" comprised of individuals but the species itself. By protecting this one baby this gift a mother accepts life's clearest responsibility.” 
― Gavin de Becker
•“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.” 
― Margaret Culkin Banning
•“Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception. After a few years the child never sees her again. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. But she is greatly mistaken; she is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son; she is teaching him ingratitude, and she is preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him, as he now despises his nurse.” 
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
•“Even if i'm setting myself up for failure, I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obseessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is. A mother who doesn't fret over failings and slights, who realizes her worries and anxieties are just thoughts, the continuous chattering and judgement of a too busy mind. A mother who doesn't worry so much about being bad or good but just recognizes that she's both, and neither. A mother who does her best, and for whom that is good enough, even if, in the end, her best turns out to be, simply, not bad. ” 
― Ayelet Waldman
•“It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.” 
― Julia Quinn
•“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.” 
― Debra Ginsberg
•“I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.”
― Diane Kruger 
•“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”
― Tenneva Jordan
•“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.” 
― Rose Kennedy
•“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” 
― Margaret Sanger
•“I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.” 
― Ayelet Waldman
•“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.” 
― Jodi Picoult
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