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“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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.”

“A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“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.”

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Author:Brigitte Nielsen

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

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.”

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Author:Paula Radcliffe

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

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Author:Katey Sagal

“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”

“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!”

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Author:Jordin Sparks

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

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

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Author:Meryl Streep

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”

“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.”

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Author:Julie Walters

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

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Author:George Washington

“Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.”

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Author:Ruby Wax

“When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”

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

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.”

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Book:The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

Source: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”

Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table

“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“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.”

“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”

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Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“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.”

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Author:Sharon Creech

“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.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

Source: A Selection of Poems

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”

Source: Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again

“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”

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Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”

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Author:Washington Irving

“There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”

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Author:James E. Faust

“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”

“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.”

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Author:Billy Sunday

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”

Source: Have Space Suit, Will Travel

“When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. Helping that child be up to the mama. But God never gives us a task without giving us the means to see it through. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child.”

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Author:Hillary Jordan

“He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.”

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”

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Book:Pigs in Heaven: Novel, A

Source: Pigs in Heaven: Novel, A

“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.”

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Book:My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.”

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Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”

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Book:Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.”

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother”

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