Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Edgeworth

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

James Hillman

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.

Julia Roberts

[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

Julia Quinn

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

Nelly Furtado

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.

Honore de Balzac

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

Isla Fisher

You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

Kerri Walsh

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.

Jessica Valenti

The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.

Jennie Finch

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

Jennie Finch

How's motherhood? It is absolutely wonderful. Oh, my gosh. It's truly indescribable and amazing.

Lafcadio Hearn

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Patti Davis

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

George Eliot

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

George Eliot

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

Soleil Moon Frye

Everything we did was a first: first bath, first walk, first drive in the car. It was like we walked into an alternate universe that looked just like the old one, but all the rules were different and we had to relearn how to live.

Sissy Spacek

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.

Martha Wainwright

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

Margaret Mead

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Meg Ryan

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

Patricia Hill Collins

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Nita Ambani

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

Marianne Williamson

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

M. Russell Ballard

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

James E. Faust

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.

Jessica Marais

Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

Harriet Lerner

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Susan Cheever

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Misty May-Treanor

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood,

Lisa Unger

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

Kelis

Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.

John Eldredge

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)

Emma Thompson

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.