Quotes and Sayings About Motherhood
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Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
-- Adrian G. Duplantier -
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
-- Alice Walker -
And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.
-- Allen Toussaint -
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
-- Allison Pearson -
~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~
-- Amanda Peet -
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting
-- Amanda Peet -
There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.
-- Ann Romney -
Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.
-- Ann Romney -
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
-- Ann Voskamp -
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 -
We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
-- Anna Quindlen -
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
-- Aristotle -
I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
-- Art Linkletter -
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.
-- August Kleinzahler -
I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
-- Ayn Rand -
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 -
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 -
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
