117 Motherhood Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 Mom Me Crazy Woman My Life Looking Motherhood Young Enjoy Looking Forward Pass Want Should Forward Actually

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. Ellen Barkin

Good You Honesty Motherhood Think Way Member Bad Given Voice Miss Audience Audience Member Mothers Real Either Movies Hollywood

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 You Long Motherhood Difficult Think Despite About Long Period Over Period Make Am Due Lots Very Efforts Decisions Now Grown-Up Things Difficult Decisions Resist

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion. Erica Jong

Passion Motherhood Think Completion Ourselves Out Part Expresses Orphaned

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. Erica Jong

Love Women Motherhood Live Believe Difficult Always Passionately Been Intellect Intellectually Themselves Should Choose Express

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood. Ezra Taft Benson

Marriage Women World Better Motherhood Suited Out Some Voices Lifestyles Maintain Cry Alternative Women Are Than Careers

There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance. Frankie Shaw

Government Motherhood Support Idea Pie American Any Apple Apple Pie Assistance

Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock. Gail Collins

You Change Welfare Trend Will Half Single Motherhood Babies Conservatives Out Would Born Wedlock Had Soon Welfare Reform Sure Lease Reduce Least Were Greatly Reform Did Moms Eliminate Eliminated

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. Helen Hunt

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

God Mom Man Motherhood Dare Price Misunderstand May Lessen

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. Helen Mirren

Me Motherhood No Interest Instinct Maternal Whatsoever Holds Interest

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself. Idina Menzel

Myself Me Motherhood Liberating Something Having Somewhat Neurotic Attribute Because Been Than Stop Bigger Used Helped Things

My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?' Jade Jagger

I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier. Jade Jagger

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

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood. Jenny Mollen

Women Motherhood Think Enough About Women Are Being Being Honest Honest

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about. Jerry Hall

Good Motherhood About Modelling Acting

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be. Jessica Valenti

I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process of writing: one climbs and is continuously moving with each book. Becoming a mother is the greatest connection I've ever felt to being spiritual. Jhumpa Lahiri

Spiritual Book Writing Mother Will Motherhood Own Young Say Like Felt Greatest Becoming Climbs Continuously Just Being Children Young Children Process Moving Connection Each Ever Peak Two

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago. Joan Lunden

Time Good Morning Parenting You Three Demanding Motherhood Healthy Think Good Morning About More Point Had Almost Like Know Doing Fit Than America Just Children While Much Show Less

Motherhood changed me completely. Juhi Chawla

Me Motherhood Changed

I wanted to find a way to merge my taste as an art and creative director with my new little obsessions: babies and motherhood and all of that. So I began working on my website, Romy and the Bunnies, which is named after my daughter, Romy. Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me. Kajol

Me You Heart Cake Amazing Feeling Motherhood Pleasure Those Kids Relive Always Amazing Feeling Been Close Get While Icing Them Working Special Moments Works

Motherhood Quotes

No more motherhood quotes