Best mother & being-a-mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Being a mother is magical.”

Mother Being A Mother

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.”

Jobs Mother Fun Being A Mother

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“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.”

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Author:Melanie Roach

“I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.”

Mother Walking Secure Being A Mother

Author:Connie Stevens

“I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.”

Mother Given Adore Greatest Gifts Being A Mother

Author:Uma Thurman

“Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.”

Important Mother Careers My Favorite Being A Mother

Author:Jenni Rivera

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“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.”

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Author:Anna Friel

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”

“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.”

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Author:Annette Funicello

“The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.”

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Author:Louise Bourgeois

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

Hard Mother Hard Work Tire Being A Mother

Author:Kirsty Gallacher

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.”

“There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.”

Mother Challenges Responsibility Undertakings Being A Mother

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.”

Mother Love Is Acting Being A Mother

Author:Karisma Kapoor

“More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.”

“At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.”

Mother Father Jesus Born Female Inspired Males Opening Chains Adulthood Being A Mother Athena Odyssey

Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.”

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Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

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

Important Mother Passion All Things Activist Being A Mother Great Passion

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.”

Mother Honored Mothers Day Being A Mother

Author:Liya Kebede

“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

“Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”

Mother Cake Being A Mother Scolded

Author:Margaret Mead

“The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.”

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Author:Olivia Wilde

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

Mother Decision Tiny Being A Mother

Book:The Husband's Secret

Source: The Husband's Secret

“Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly precious and concentrated because the rest of your day is completely packed with diapers, edible liquid foods that look like pooh, tiny bathtubs, and unconditional love.”

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Author:Chiara Barzini

“I had this whole hippie idea of how easy raising a baby would be. How he would just eat and sleep and listen to Mozart, and I could just go on with my life the way it was. I was very wrong. It [being a mother] has taught me to be present and to live inside my body rather than in some out-there fantasy world.”

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Author:Chiara Barzini

“I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'”

Ifs Mind I Can Wanted Mother Successful Female Empowerment Stronger Female Empowerment Of My Mind Being A Mother

Author:Nicki Minaj

“Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.”

Self Mother Culture Demand Expectations Complicated Internals Being A Mother

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought thats 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.”

Way School Young Mother Girl Too Much Promise Let Me Pregnant Being A Mother Counselor

Author:Jenni Rivera

“Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“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.”

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Author:Anne Roiphe

“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.”

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Author:Sandra Scarr

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