Here are some of my favorite quotes about motherhood. May these motherhood quotes help you feel supported, inspired and valued for all that you are and all that you do, as mothers and as women.
QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERHOOD: WHAT IS A MOTHER
“Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.”
by: Betty Rollin
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
by: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
by: Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
by: Honore de Balzac
QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERHOOD: VALUING MOTHERS
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
by: Author Unknown
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”
by: Zora Neale Hurston
QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERHOOD: POLITICAL
“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 to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”
by: Germaine Greer
“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.”
by: Elaine Heffner
“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
by: Lin Yutang
QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERHOOD: EXPERIENCE OF MOTHERHOOD
“We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.”
by: Henry Ward Beecher
“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.â€
by Erma Bombeck
“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.”
by: Rajneesh
HUMOROUS MOTHERHOOD QUOTES
“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
by: Florida Scott-Maxwell
“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
by: William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949
“Behind every successful woman……is a basket of dirty laundry.”
by: Author Unknown
“Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.”
by: Erma Bombeck
QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERHOOD: MOTHERWORK
“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”
by: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“All mothers are working mothers.”
by: Author Unknown
“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.”
by: Golda Meir
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