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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. -- Robert Browning
Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing. -- Jessica Simpson
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. -- Meryl Streep
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. -- Rebecca West
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. -- Barbara Walters
Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment. -- Jessalyn Gilsig
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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
Motherhood changes everything. -- Adriana Trigiani
Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding. -- Gloria Estefan
Motherhood doesn't have a nationality -- Melinda Cross
[Motherhood is] 'heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.' -- Olivia Wilde
Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent. -- Jessica Marais
Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism. -- Gilda Radner
I believe in the Motherhood of God. -- Elbert Hubbard
Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt. -- Felicity Huffman
Motherhood is always an act of courage. -- Stacy Schiff
Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes. -- Lisa Unger
Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work. -- Edward Carpenter
Motherhood is 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million joyous ones. -- Viola Davis
Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. -- Ricki Lake
Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that. -- Ann Romney
Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short. -- Susan Mitchell
Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life. -- Sara Rue
Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy. -- Sandra Bullock
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention. -- Margaret Mead
Motherhood is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life. -- Sara Rue
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. -- Helen Mirren
Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting; Focus on the uniqueness of every Child. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Motherhood:The most exhausting, emotional, rewardingand life-enhancing journey a woman can take. -- Charlotte Pearson
Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it? -- Maria Shriver
Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody. -- Annie Lennox
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. -- Paul Harris
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world. -- Nita Ambani
Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women. -- Sheri L. Dew
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. -- Howard W. Hunter
Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives. -- Romola Garai
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. -- Joan Blades
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. -- Joan Blades
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor. -- Barbara Johnson
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. -- Marni Jackson
Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you. -- Tess Gerritsen
Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important. -- Kelis
Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies. -- Edward Abbey
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. -- Keri Russell
Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do. -- Cynthia Nixon
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. -- Alan Beck
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. -- Danielle Steel
[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools. -- Chrissy Teigen
Motherhood is a blissful chainI have a mother - my precious giftI am a mother - the best of my kind! -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind! -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism. -- Gilda Radner
Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved. -- Richelle Mead
Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches! -- Constance Marie
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Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling. -- Glenda Jackson
Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot. -- Meg Ryan
Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had. -- Deborah Mailman
Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share. -- Halle Berry
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. -- Meg Ryan
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death. -- Rebecca West
... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity. -- Margaret Sanger
Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit. -- Jodi Picoult
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time. -- Adrienne Rich
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
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels. -- J. Reuben Clark
Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience. -- Erma Bombeck
Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being. -- Erma Bombeck
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
Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in? -- Madonna Ciccone
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
Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future. -- Sally Field
Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering. -- Carre Otis
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us. -- Sheri L. Dew
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do. -- Erica Jong
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'. -- Pope John Paul II
Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for. -- Neil L. Andersen
Motherhood is the most beautiful, exciting thing, and there's nothing that I feel like I can't accomplish while having children in my life. I would sacrifice having more years of being wherever I want whenever I want for years with my kids. -- Hayden Panettiere
Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate. -- Sheri L. Dew
Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother. -- Ben Lindsey
I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby. -- Eva Mendes
I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Mothers are all slightly insane. -- J. D. Salinger
Necessity, the mother of invention. -- George Farquhar
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Men are what their mothers made them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. -- Isadora Duncan
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. -- George Eliot
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. -- Barbara Kingsolver
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? -- Milton Berle
How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be. -- Rebecca Wells
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. -- Mother Teresa
Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you. -- Jill Bennett
Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced. -- Elisabeth Hasselbeck
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. -- James Russell Lowell
My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. -- Wilma Rudolph
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. -- Honore de Balzac
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. -- Erma Bombeck
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. -- Honore de Balzac
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. -- Sophia Loren
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. -- Mother Teresa
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. -- Jessica Lange
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. -- Anita Baker
All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience. -- Penelope Cruz
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?' -- Allison Pearson
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. -- Crystal Eastman
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. -- George Washington
Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation. -- Jody Watley
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies. -- Iyanla Vanzant
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
A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing. -- Jennie Finch
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. -- Alice Walker
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
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. -- Rachel Cusk

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