Motherhood Quotes

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

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.

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

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.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.