Motherhood Quotes

"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 has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
-Meryl Streep

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
-Robert Browning

"A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot."
-Allan Beck

"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race."
-Margaret Sanger

"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

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
-Barbara Kingsolver

"There's a certain ferocity in motherhood."
-Celeste Zappala

"Gwyneth has a wonderful sense of style that has only gotten better with age and motherhood."
-Karen Sanders

"There are changes in the brain (during pregnancy and early motherhood) ? concrete, measurable changes, and later, the way we think and behave is changed."
-Katherine Ellison

"I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither."
-William Trevor

"The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it."
-Victoria Billings

"Kate has a lot of anxiety about not living up to the standard of motherhood in this town, in this context."
-Jennifer Weiner

"Women have an internal signal of pending motherhood - they are pregnant. Men do not."
-Mark Erickson

"[(PEOPLE) -- Inside the offices of the production company she created with her actor husband,] Everybody Loves Raymond ... Motherhood & Hollywood: How to Get a Job Like Mine."
-Patricia Heaton

"I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me."
-Art Linkletter

"Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes conditions, which is just the sort of learning that drives change in the brain."
-Katherine Ellison

"This race was just feeling my way through. I'm 39, but I'm not over the hill yet. The one title I didn't have was motherhood. Everything I've ever wanted, I have. ... I'm blessed to have a healthy baby."
-Gail Devers