Being A Mother Quotes

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier. ~ Joe Hill

For me, being a mother made me a better professional, because coming home every night to my girls reminded me what I was working for. And being a professional made me a better mother, because by pursuing my dreams, I was modeling for my girls how to pursue their dreams. ~ Michelle Obama

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream. ~ Juliette Binoche

However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human. ~ Mary Blakely

Sometimes being a mother makes you blind. You think you know what's best and refuse to see any other way. ~ Tracy Holczer

I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children. ~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Being a mother is incredibly important. To the naysayers, I growl, do not diminish it by calling it a job. ~ Shonda Rhimes

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. ~ Mireille Enos

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. ~ Jodi Picoult

Being a father describes a man, being a mother defines a woman. ~ Tawny O'dell

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end. ~ Yiyun Li

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41. ~ Salma Hayek

Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a mother. ~ Michael Hyatt

I absolutely love being a mother. It's been a blessing. It's fun and it's hard, but it's absolutely amazing. ~ Keisha Castle-Hughes

We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes. ~ Betty Friedan

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

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids. ~ Marcia Gay Harden

Don't even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years. ~ Brandon Shire

They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead. ~ Anne Roiphe

I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way. ~ Madonna Ciccone

It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it. ~ Marly Youmans

I love being a mother ... I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman. ~ Shelley Long

Thanks, Mom. Thanks for making me try out for this play.'

I think I might have just made being a mother totally worthwhile for her.

I will try to never forget her face...Mom's got tears in her eyes and she's smiling. It's an amazing look.

I have to remember how powerful it can be to say thank you.

Especially to the people you live with. ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

I never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative. When I'm with my kids I'm creating but I'm still a mom. I don't wear two different hats. My kids have always been on the set with me. I was breastfeeding on set. None of my kids would take a bottle so they could not leave my side for a very long time. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. ~ Billy Graham

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

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. ~ Julie Walters

You must feel an almost pathological need - understandably - to stand guard between your son and the world." "Yeah, it's called being a mother." Ma nearly snarls it. ~ Emma Donoghue

Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores. ~ Naomi Stadlen

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done. ~ Katey Sagal

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time. ~ Monica Cruz

Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated. ~ Siri Hustvedt

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children. ~ Whitney Houston

I like being a mother. ~ Amanda Abbington

Being a mother still happens if you don't stay home with your kids. It still happens if you get a job and go to work. It happens if you are an Army Ranger and you're deployed overseas and your kid is rating with your parents. Still a mother. Still not a job. Working or staying home, one is still a mother. ~ Shonda Rhimes

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. ~ Billy Sunday

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation. ~ Brigitte Nielsen

Being a mother is never easy... It's about failing, learning, and then failing again. ~ Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

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. ~ Freida Pinto

whole. I can't imagine anything more terrifying than losing Sophie. When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving 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 her 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. It doesn't ~ Jodi Picoult

Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits ... A woman's involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife can make it easier to work outside the home. Being a mother can facilitate the activities and foster the skills of the efficient wife or of the effective worker. And employment outside the home can contribute in substantial, practical ways to how one works within the home, as a spouse and as a parent. ~ Faye J Crosby

The greatest thing about being a mother so young, I had my first child at 24, is that I cook, I clean, I love to be independent and kind of hate to be waited on and hate to be taken care of. So, I guess that demonstrates my fiercely independent nature which is kind of anti what I portray on a weekly basis. ~ Vanessa L. Williams

It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person. ~ Cheryl Hines

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. ~ Lisa Edelstein

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard. ~ Sarah Clarke

You're good at this," said Ronan.
"What?"
He leaned to touch the baby's head. "Being a mother."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
Ronan looked awkward. Then he said glibly, "Nothing, if you don't like it." He glanced at Benix, Faris, and the others, but they were discussing thumbscrews and nooses. "It didn't mean anything. I take it back."
Kestrel set the baby on the grass next to Faris. "You cannot take it back."
"Just this once," he said, echoing her earlier words during the game.
She stood and walked away.
He followed. "Come, Kestrel. I spoke only the truth."
They had entered the shade of thickly grown laran trees, whose leaves were a bloody color. They would soon fall.
"It's not that I wouldn't want to have a child someday," Kestrel told Ronan.
Visibly relieved, he said, "Good. The empire needs new life."
It did. She knew this. As the Valorian empire stretched across the continent, it faced the problem of keeping what it had won. The solutions were military prowess and boosting the Valorian population, so the emperor prohibited any activities that unnecessarily endangered Valorian lives--like dueling and the bull-jumping games that used to mark coming-of-age ceremonies. Marriage became mandatory by the age of twenty for anyone who was not a soldier.
"It's just--" Kestrel tried again: "Ronan, I feel trapped. Between what my father wants and--"
He held up his hands in flat-palmed defense. "I am not trying ~ Marie Rutkoski

You can quit a job. I can't quit being a mother. I'm a mother forever. Mothers are never off the clock, mothers are never on vacation. Being a mother redefines us, reinvents us, destroys and rebuilds us. Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are. Being a mother requires us to get it together or risk messing up another person forever. Being a mother yanks our hearts out of our bodies and attaches them to our tiny humans and sends them out into the world, forever hostages. ~ Shonda Rhimes

I never understood why a woman's strength, character and hard work are underestimated. A woman has to prove herself to be worthy in just about everything she does. When it comes to her relationships such as friendship, marriage, being a mother, daughter, sister, and a co-worker, someone will find fault in what she does because nothing is ever good enough. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I've come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important. ~ Marissa Mayer

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion. ~ Elizabeth Taylor

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever. ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess. ~ Jessica Alba

Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem ... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women. ~ Sandra Scarr

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way. ~ Christina Aguilera

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. ~ Billy Sunday

When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about. ~ Natalia Vodianova

The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination. ~ David Bergen

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. ~ Anna Friel

The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing. ~ Tom Brokaw

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes! ~ Jordin Sparks

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all ... being married ... being a mother. ~ Karen Carpenter

I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it's not separated. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

Children fail to realize that a mother doesn't have to provide their "wants". Her bags are heavy because they are filled by everyone's "wants". There isn't one "want" in the bags a mother is carrying that belongs to her. She looks past her self-fulfillment. She feels as though her wants and needs are not important; therefore, they are never on the list.
Children cannot see past their selfish ways. By law, a parent is supposed to provide shelter, food, clothing, make sure their children attend schools and have their annual health checkups. A mother isn't required to put her children in extracurricular activities; that is a choice.
Friends come and go; a marriage may last or fail, but once you're a mother there is no such thing as divorcing your children. Being a mother is the hardest job ever; it is "till death do you part". As a mother, you try your best to make sure your children do not make the same mistakes that you did. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. ~ Nella Larsen

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. ~ Jessica Lange

The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don't have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother. ~ C. JoyBell C.

But given everything I do know, no matter how hard it is, how lonely or stressful, still, I would not want to leave this earth without being a mother. ~ Kelly Corrigan

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us. ~ Mariah Carey

I understand why you do your job," my mother said to me. "There's a sense of accomplishment when you take down someone bad. It's like being a police officer or being in the Army or being a mother. You have a responsibility to protect and keep order, and you do whatever it takes to get that done. ~ Janet Evanovich

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was. ~ Georgia Holt

Being a mother can be like drying out the foundations of a house or mending a roof: it takes time, sweat, and money, and once it's done everything looks exactly the same as it did before. It's not the sort of thing anyone gives you praise for. ~ Fredrik Backman

We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young. ~ Henry B. Eyring

...she speaks words so powerful the wind etches them inside the atmosphere for women to remember through history. 'I exist. Outside of being a mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter, I exist. I exist as a human first, as a being that experiences joy and suffering, beauty and learning, life and tragedy. I exist because the universe chose to put me here for a purpose higher than my relation to men. I exist because a wise old woman gave me a gift and now magic runs through my veins. So the problem is not my existence as half dragon, half girl/ The problem is how you perceive it as so small, you do not believe I can exist at all apart from through my bonds with men. ~ Nikita Gill

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 ~ Jodi Picoult

Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread. ~ Laura Lippman

I suspected (and still do) that I would love being a mother... ~ Kate Bolick

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. ~ Angela Lindvall

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

Being a mother is not about 'birthing a child into the world.' Rather, it is about repeatedly 'birthing into the child' a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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. ~ Melanie Roach

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like. ~ Kathleen Sebelius

I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.
Then - I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then - I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then - I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of. ~ Megan Mayhew Bergman

I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom and I was fearful at one point of even working at the national level because I was afraid that I would disappoint a child or I wouldn't be as ready for a big position as maybe I should have been when I came to Fox. ~ Ainsley Earhardt

People say that being a mother is the most important job you will ever have. And it is very important. But it is even more important, I believe, to be a wife, a good wife. ~ Heather Gudenkauf

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife. ~ Kim Alexis

And then to win the prize had been incredible. She felt like she was being seen, actually being seen, for the first time in the endless years of being a mother and a wife. ~ Nicole Trope

The most important job anyone can ever have is being a mother. ~ J.A. Konrath

Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally feed her baby with her body! In my eyes, this is a certain form of beauty, of divinity! To know that my body can not only form and bring another human being into the world, but that I can actually feed babies with my own milk from my own breasts - that puts me in a state of awe each time I think about it. It is an honour to be a woman. ~ C. JoyBell C.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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

That's what being a mother is, isn't it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listening for the sound of hunger in the moonlit hours; hearing an eager voice call even in the camouflage of traffic, loud music, and whirring machines. It's looking at every door, every phone, and every approaching silhouette and feeling that slight lift, that tickle of opportunity to be again - mother. ~ Nadia Hashimi

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

It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. being a mother and wife comes first and I just can not uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best. ~ Alyssa Milano

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. ~ Carol Ann Duffy

Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older. ~ Nandi Berry

Actually, abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world. ~ Katha Pollitt

It seemed to me like all my worrying about not being a mother came down to this history - this implication that a woman is not an end in herself. She is a means to a man, who will grow up to be an end in himself, and do something in the world. While a woman is a passageway through which a man might come. I have always felt like an end in myself - doesn't everyone? - but perhaps my doubt that being an end-in-myself is enough comes from this deep lineage of women not being seen as ends, but as passageways through which a man might come. If you refuse to be a passageway, there is something wrong. You must at least try. But I don't want to be a passageway through which a man might come, then manifest himself in the world however he likes, without anyone doubting his right. ~ Sheila Heti

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career. ~ Jenni Rivera

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. ~ Milan Kundera