Top Motherhood Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Motherhood quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Elizabeth Blackwell
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
Collection: Motherhood
Image of Lisa Unger
Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
- Lisa Unger
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Image of Taslima Nasrin
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
- Taslima Nasrin
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Image of Bess Streeter Aldrich
I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.
- Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Image of Janette Rallison
Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.
- Janette Rallison
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Image of Stacy Schiff
Motherhood is always an act of courage.
- Stacy Schiff
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Image of Amanda Peet
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting
- Amanda Peet
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Image of Romola Garai
Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
- Romola Garai
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Image of Tia Mowry
Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.
- Tia Mowry
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Image of 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.
- Soleil Moon Frye
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Image of D. Todd Christofferson
We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.
- D. Todd Christofferson
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Image of Roger Penrose
If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
- Roger Penrose
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Image of Susan Mitchell
Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.
- Susan Mitchell
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Image of Marita Golden
I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.
- Marita Golden
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Image of Julie B. Beck
There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.
- Julie B. Beck
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Image of 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.
- Nelly Furtado
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Image of 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.
- Sissy Spacek
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Image of Anne-Marie Slaughter
Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Image of Olga Broumas
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.
- Olga Broumas
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Image of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Image of M. L. Stedman
Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.
- M. L. Stedman
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Image of 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.
- Martha Wainwright
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Image of Susan Chira
The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.
- Susan Chira
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Image of Sara Rue
Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life.
- Sara Rue
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Image of Kelis
Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.
- Kelis
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Image of Nafis Sadik
What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?
- Nafis Sadik
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Image of Jessica Marais
Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.
- Jessica Marais
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Image of Anne Taylor Fleming
You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.
- Anne Taylor Fleming
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Image of Barbara Johnson
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
- Barbara Johnson
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Image of M. Russell Ballard
I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.
- M. Russell Ballard
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Image of Samuel Lover
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
- Samuel Lover
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Image of Hannah Nordhaus
Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.
- Hannah Nordhaus
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Image of Anna Quindlen
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.
- Anna Quindlen
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Image of James E. Faust
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.
- James E. Faust
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Image of Harriet Lerner
Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.
- Harriet Lerner
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Image of 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.
- Pink
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Image of Kate Moss
When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".
- Kate Moss
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Image of 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.
- Nicholas Sparks
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Image of Anna Quindlen
We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
- Anna Quindlen
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Image of Edith Wharton
Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.
- Edith Wharton
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Image of Richard Steele
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me
- Richard Steele
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Image of Julia Roberts
[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.
- Julia Roberts
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Image of Natalie Portman
One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.
- Natalie Portman
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Image of Julia Quinn
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
- Julia Quinn
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Image of Maria Shriver
Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?
- Maria Shriver
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Image of Tess Gerritsen
Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.
- Tess Gerritsen
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Image of 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.
- Marianne Williamson
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Image of Adrienne Rich
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
- Adrienne Rich
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Image of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Image of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Collection: Motherhood