Quotes About Motherhood

I've compiled this collection of quotes about motherhood for your insight, inspiration, and sometimes amusement! Enjoy!

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Interesting Quotes About Motherhood

“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 to become fully independent.” ~Erich Fromm

"The phrase "working mother" is redundant." ~Jane Sellman

“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

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb

"All mothers are working mothers." ~Author Unknown

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." ~Oprah Winfrey

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one” ~Jill Churchill

“There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect” ~Roseanne Barr

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. ~Chinese Proverb

Inspiring Quotes About Motherhood

"Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering." ~Elaine Heffner

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." ~Tenneva Jordan

"The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests." ~Author Unknown

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." ~Honoré de Balzac

“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.” ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." ~Abraham Lincoln

"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, Women and Beauty
More Quotes About Motherhood

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

"I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up." ~Pearl S. Buck

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." ~Diana, Princess of Wales

"At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent." ~Golda Meir

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not." ~James Joyce

"All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health." ~Germaine Greer

"She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions -- and in the end doing them irreparable harm." ~Marcia Muller

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ~Theodore Hesburgh

Some More Quotes About Motherhood

"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

"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease." ~Elizabeth Gaskell

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." ~Rajneesh

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." ~Elizabeth Stone

Funny Quotes About Motherhood

"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after." ~Peter De Vries

"It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't." ~Barbara Kingsolver

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