Being A Mother Quotes

1. "On the flight to Phillidelphia, she sat alone in the middle of a row of three seats. She could not help but think of how, if she were a mother traveling, there would be two seats filled beside her. One for Lindsey. One for Buckley. But though she was, by definition a mother, she had at some point ceased to be one too. She couldn't claim that right and privilege after missing more than half a decade of their lives. She now knew that being a mother was a calling, something plenty of young girls dreamed of being. But my mother had never had that dream, and she had been punished in the most horrible and unimaginable way for never having wanted me."
Author: Alice Sebold

2. "I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother."
Author: Angela Lindvall

3. "Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."
Author: Anna Friel

4. "Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother."
Author: Annette Funicello

5. "Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame."
Author: Billy Sunday

6. "Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy."
Author: Blythe Danner

7. "I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life."
Author: Carol Ann Duffy

8. "My husband, Bill, and I tried having kids naturally, but then I came to a crossroads before my 40th birthday: I realized that my being a mother wasn't limited to my bearing a child. I just knew that I wanted to be a mother, so I offered it up to my destiny to God and to the universe and met with an adoption attorney. The process was not difficult."
Author: Christine Ebersole

9. "Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life."
Author: Cindy Margolis

10. "I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set."
Author: Connie Stevens

11. "My letters seeking a job, though truthful, diminished the full truth. Face would blanch if the facts had been complete: "Dear Sir," I thought. "Do you have a position for a journeyman burglar, con man, forger and car thief; also with experience as armed robber, pimp, card cheat and several other things. I smoked marijuana at twelve (in the 40's) and shot heroin at sixteen. I have no experience with LSD and methedrine. They came to popularity since my imprisonment. I've buggered pretty young boys and feminine homosexuals (but only when locked up away from women). In the idiom of jails, prisons and gutters (some plush gutters) I'm a motherfucker! Not literally, for I don't remember my mother. In my world the term, used as I used it, is a boast of being hell on wheels, outrageously unpredictable, a virtuoso of crime. Of course by being a motherfucker in that world I'm a piece of garbage in yours. Do you have a job?"
Author: Edward Bunker

12. "Being a mother is magical."
Author: Ellen Pompeo

13. "I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller."
Author: Frances O'Grady

14. "I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision."
Author: Freida Pinto

15. "Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career."
Author: Jenni Rivera

16. "Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise."
Author: Jenni Rivera

17. "Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess."
Author: Jessica Alba

18. "I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth."
Author: Jessica Lange

19. "When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one."
Author: Jodi Picoult

20. "I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words."
Author: Jodi Picoult

21. "But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper"
Author: Jodi Picoult

22. "It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied  by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history."
Author: Jojo Moyes

23. "Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before."
Author: Julie Walters

24. "I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother."
Author: Karen Carpenter

25. "I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother."
Author: Karisma Kapoor

26. "I absolutely love being a mother. It's been a blessing. It's fun and it's hard, but it's absolutely amazing."
Author: Keisha Castle Hughes

27. "I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife."
Author: Kim Alexis

28. "Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work."
Author: Kirsty Gallacher

29. "Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions."
Author: Liane Moriarty

30. "After Mary confessed that dream to him, Jack got to wondering how women felt about motherhood once their children are grown and didn't need them anymore. How do they close the storybooks, box up the toys, and pack up the memories of the deeply lived-in childhoods of their babies? Childhoods that fly by quickly and selfishly, without regard to a mother's unconditional love and sacrifice. How does a mother go on being a mother when one day she wakes up and finds that her arms are empty and her grown children are walking away from her without so much as a glance back?"
Author: Lilli Jolgren Day

31. "For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience."
Author: Lisa Edelstein

32. "Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong."
Author: Mary Beth Whitehead

33. "I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting."
Author: Melanie Roach

34. "The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
Author: Meryl Streep

35. "Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress."
Author: Milan Kundera

36. "People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level."
Author: Mireille Enos

37. "Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores."
Author: Naomi Stadlen

38. "I'm not… it's just that I don't know anything about owning a—"I stop and give myself a swift mental kick in the ass. So what if I don't know anything about owning a business? I can learn. I don't know anything about being a mother either, but I've started to believe that someday, I could be a good one. I'd certainly give it everything I have."
Author: Nina Lane

39. "I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations."
Author: Paula Radcliffe

40. "Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation."
Author: Robert A. Heinlein

41. "Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied."
Author: Ruby Wax

42. "I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother."
Author: Samantha Bond

43. "Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears," Gram said. "If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up."
Author: Sharon Creech

44. "Then she rushes to pick up Asha from school, where she is known only as "Asha's mom" by the other mothers, who seem to all spend a lot of time together. Somer has no time for the PTA and bake sales. She has no time for herself. Her profession no longer defines her, but neither does being a mother. Both are pieces of her, and yet they don't seem to add up to a whole."
Author: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

45. "But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin."
Author: Sue Monk Kidd

46. "I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given."
Author: Uma Thurman

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