M Quotes
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“Motherhood magnifies both love and struggles.”
Source: Broken Secrets
“Motherhood makes you stronger even as it makes you weaker. Your new sensitivity is a strength, and you should see it that way.”
Source: Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother
“Motherhood often feels like a game of guilt management. Sometimes the guilt is overwhelming and debilitating. Sometimes just a low simmer, but it always feels right there. There is never any shortage of fuel to feed the beast, so the whole mechanism is constantly nourished to administer shame and a general feeling of incompetency. Add our carefully curated social media world, which not only affects our sense of success and failure, but also furnishes our children with an unprecedented brand of expectations, and BOOM – we’re the generation that does more for our kids than ever in history, yet feels the guiltiest. Virtually every one of my friends provides more than they had growing up, and still the mantra we buy into is ‘not enough, not enough, not enough.’ Meanwhile, if we developed the chops to tune out the ordinary complaints of children, we’d see mostly happy kids, loved and nurtured, cared for and treasured.”
Source: Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
“Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.”
“Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.”
“Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.”
“Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.”
“Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration
“Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.”
“Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.”
“Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in?”
“Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.”
“Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.”
Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”
“Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.”
“Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?”
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Source: A Selection of Poems
“Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.”
Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around
“Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.”
“Mothering, for me, means willpower, fortitude, grit. It is the transcendent power to multiply oneself, succeeded by the supreme humility to serve that second self.”
Source: The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
“Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.”
“Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.”
“Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.”
“Mothering your man is not sexy for you or for him. If you want your man to "start being a man", start being his lover not his mother.”
“Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.”
“Motherless Motherhood (The Sonnet)
To take choice out of pregnancy,
Is to take the mother out of motherhood.
If childbirth isn't the mother's will,
Who the hell is state to make the rule!
State is a servant of the people,
Church is a servant of the people.
When they claim to be guardian supreme,
People must stand to spoil their gamble.
To take choice out of democracy,
Is to take citizens out of government.
But to take bigotry out of politics,
Is to take politics out of the state.
A society that equates woman with womb,
Is a society headed for its own tomb.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.”
“Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be strong, guiding and unselfish. The sweetly sung lullaby; the cool hand on the feverd brow, the Mother's Day smiles and flowers are only a small part of the picture. True mothers have to be made of steel to withstand the difficulties that are sure to beset their children.”
“Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.”
“Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.”
“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy
“Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.”
“Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.”
Source: Farmer Boy
“Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.”
“Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.”
“Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.”
“Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.”
Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
“Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.”
“Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with”
Source: The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle
“Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.”
“Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.”
“Mothers and fathers must be gentle at least some of the time. Mothers and fathers must also be strict at least some of the time. Most of the time, though, most mothers and fathers must be mostly strict and gentle together.”
Source: Paths of Fear: An Anthology of Overcoming Through Courage, Inspiration, and the Miracle of Love
“Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.”
“Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.”
“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
Source: Dreaming Water: A Novel
“Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me.”
“Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention”