Motherwood Quotes

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” Honore de Balzac

 

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”

 

“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

 

“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

 

“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” Irish Proverb

 

“Motherhood is the strangest thing; it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.” Rebecca West

 

“Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.” Emily James Putnam

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

 

“Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder non existent.” Barbara Ehrenreich

 

“Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?” Emma Goldman

 

“A mother who is really a mother is never free.” Honore de Balzac

 

“For that’s what a woman, a mother wants – to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it’s safer for them to be interested in other people’s happiness than to believe in their own.” Marguerite Duras