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.
Anita Baker

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.
Tea Leoni

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.
Sissy Spacek

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
Natalie Wood

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
Art Linkletter

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.
William Trevor

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.
Cass Elliot

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

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Emma Goldman

Motherhood change me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.
Meg Ryan

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

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.
Jane Seymour

Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science.
Melinda M. Marshall

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Paul Harris

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

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Rebecca West

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.
Gloria Estefan

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
Anne Tyler

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
Victoria Secunda