Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ayn Rand

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Jessica Marais

Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

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.

James E. Faust

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

George Eliot

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

Harriet Lerner

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

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.

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.

Honore de Balzac

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

Pink

My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.

Rachel Cusk

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

Rachel Cusk

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

Kate Moss

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

Kathryn Hahn

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

Maria Shriver

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

Misty May-Treanor

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood,

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.

Nicholas Sparks

Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.

Natascha McElhone

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

Natalie Wood

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

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.

Maria Edgeworth

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

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.

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.

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.