Motherhood Quotes

"My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost." "Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials" "Breastfeeding is the best way to get close to your baby." "Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life." "Nothing can really prepare you for the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love and worry, all mixed together." "It is right to talk about motherhood as a wonderful thing, but we also need to talk about its stresses and strains. It’s OK not to find it easy, and asking for help should not be seen as a sign of weakness." "Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not." "As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good." "I am convinced that when I am a mother, it will be my priority to make sure that my child feels loved and secure." "By the time I was 23 years old, I had five children. I was fast!" "Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen." "I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life." "The phrase 'working mother' is redundant" "When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts A mother always has to think twice once for herself and once for her child" "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them" "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness" "When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway." "The phrase "working mother" is redundant." "A mother who is really a mother is never free" "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and become fully independent"