Motherhood Quotes

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

Mother, Children, Become

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

Time, Money, Women

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

Director, Asking, Constantly

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

Woman, Fashion, Joy

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

Art, Silent, Minute

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

Motherhood Quote

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning

Love, Begins, Ends

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
Ricki Lake

Greatest, Hardest

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

Ignorance, Children, Deep

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

Happiness, History, Medical

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

Everything, Effect, Reduced

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.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Career, Thought, Moral

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver

Strength, Sometimes, Natural

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

Crisis, Sometimes, Become

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
Isadora Duncan

Pay, Price, Glory

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.
Diane Keaton

Experience, Forget, Place

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
Camille Paglia

Marriage, Education, Home

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

Difficult, Rewarding

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
Emma Thompson

Work, Time, Best

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

Life, Work, Time

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.
Kerri Walsh

Love, Wife, Career

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
Annie Lennox

Great, Everybody, Started

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

Horse, Strangest

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.
David Attenborough

Liar, Saying, Why

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
Thomas Frank

Political, Subject, Dispute

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.
Jessica Simpson

Amazing, Dream, Absolutely

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

Until, Knew, Truly

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

Career, Satisfied, Totally

I just love motherhood.
Reba McEntire

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

Life, Wanted, Sure

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