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“I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I thought, This isn't how I usually do it. I've got kids, and I'm thinking, This is weird. It's weird juggling children on your knee while you're in your rhinestone outfit. And I'm thinking, Okay, I'm gonna go out and do a show and I'm gonna be Superwoman! But I'm not really, `cause I'm a mom. It's all very strange.”

Thinking Children Shows Kids Lasts Mother Causes Strange Mom Okay Motherhood Knees Last Time Juggling Superwoman

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.”

Trying Years War Stories Wanted School Mother Rich Teacher Taught Mom Motherhood Public School Get Rich War Stories

Author:Ben Affleck

“She was this incredible mom. With each of her kids, she did something called `time,' where she would spend an hour each day doing whatever the kid wanted to do, whether it was play spacemen or `Let's go into your makeup, and I'll make you up like a clown.' And as a teenager you'd be like, `Rub me, Mom. Give me a massage.'”

Giving Play Kids Wanted Mother Hours Mom Give Me Incredibles Motherhood Teenager Each Day Makeup Clown Massage

Author:Jeff Bridges

“As a single mom, I'm juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.”

Children Littles Long Mother Hours Mom Return Cost Motherhood My Children Single Mom Juggling Long Hours Working Long Hours

Author:Edie Falco

“There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.”

Stills Mother Mom Motherhood My Time Something Better

Author:Cindy Crawford

“...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.”

Important Mom Motherhood Priorities Important Work

Author:Salma Hayek

“To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.”

Hands Mother Opportunity Nations Responsibility Destiny Influence Position Mom Citizens Motherhood Partners Vocation Being A Mom Molding

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.”

Done Government Mother Mankind Crime Mom Motherhood Civilized Being A Mom

Author:Adrian G. Duplantier

“Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.”

Mother Mom Motherhood Being A Mom Arches Keystones

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no-one will ever love you as much as a small child.”

Children Mother Wonderful Love You Mom Picks Stress Motherhood Disappear My Children Strain Being A Mom Small Child

Author:Nicola Horlick

“Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.”

Way Stills Mother Mom Negative Blame Motherhood Friday Clinging Happy Friday

Author:Nancy Friday

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.”

“All that I am my mother made me.”

Made Mother Mom Daughter Motherhood

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.”

Mom Motherhood Incomparable

Book:Love's coming of age; a series of papers on the relation of the sexes

Source: Love's coming of age; a series of papers on the relation of the sexes

“Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.”

Looks Two Kids Jobs Mother Asks Winning President Mom Vices Motherhood Two Things Vice President Dental Full Time Jobs Receptionists

Author:Alistair Begg

“Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.”

World Remember Mother Wife Motherhood Actresses Tombstone Wife Mother

Author:Eve Arden

“Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.”

Inspirational Mother Baby Miracle Motherhood Pregnant

Author:Ellen Greene

“Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.”

“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?”

Thinking Believe I Believe My Own Teach Journey Daughter Asking I Believe In Motherhood My Daughter

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?”

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Author:Nancy Thayer

“And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.”

World Remember Mother Motherhood Remember You Remembers You

Author:Allen Toussaint

“Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.”

Mother Sports Leadership Motherhood Sooner Or Later

Author:Bernard Williams

“It's incredible. Everything you ever thought about love just becomes night and day. I mean, you never thought you could love that much. You rediscover the world, and it's just a beautiful thing.”

World Mean Beautiful Night Incredibles Motherhood Beautiful Things

Author:David Arquette

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.”

Should Country Matter Courses Social Mankind Married Paid Regard Sells Motherhood Disposition Social Service Married Women

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.”

Stories Mother Motherhood Scream Hug Trapped Being A Mom Mom And Daughter

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Do without if you need to, but don't do without mother.”

Ifs Needs Mother Motherhood

Author:H. Burke Peterson

“Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.”

Mother Cost Profit Motherhood

Author:A. Theodore Tuttle

“The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.”

Ifs Home Faces Challenges Prayer Situation Messages Motherhood Destroyed Strengthening Siege Zion Under Siege

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.”

World Children Mother Fall Our Children Train Motherhood Your Children Righteousness Falling Apart Save The World

Book:An enemy hath done this

Source: An enemy hath done this

“A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response, her attitude, even her appearance and manner of dress affect the lives of her children and the whole family.”

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Author:Nathan Eldon Tanner

“Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice...They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.”

Children Home Mother Found Powerful Sacrifice Honor Benefits Financial Motherhood Exceptional Correlation Personal Sacrifice Great Financial

Author:Richard G. Scott

“No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.”

Earth Mother Prayer Motherhood Compare

Author:Edwin Arnold

“My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.”

Firsts Looks Children Remember Faces Mother Memories Mines Motherhood Vivid Exchanging Vivid Memories

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.”

Thinking Believe Children Mother I Believe Motherhood Stomach

Author:Whitney Houston

“In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.”

Mother Motherhood Vaudeville

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“I dig being a mother.”

Mother Motherhood Being A Mother

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.”

Inspirational Ends Women Powerful Courage Successful Failing Birth Lessons Motherhood Successful Women

Author:Maya Angelou

“Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.”

Earth Mother Motherhood Scrapbooking

Author:William R. Webb

“Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.”

Persons Able Mother Changed Fundamentals Motherhood

Author:Meg Ryan

“Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.”

Home Opportunity Parent Powerful Influence Parenting Motherhood Glorious Most Powerful Bless New Life Above And Beyond

Author:L. Tom Perry

“"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.”

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Author:Aeschylus

“The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.”

Kind Littles Mother Saws Islam Finals Bottom Scared Revenge Motherhood Enormous Boat Breasts Pathetic Istanbul Skylines

Author:Angela Carter

“The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly”

Soul Mother Loses Source Sorrow Pure Weakness Mercy Misery Motherhood Bless Consolation Pure Soul

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.”

World Stills Jobs Women Family Mom Demand Daughter Motherhood Terrific Mom And Daughter Mother Daughter Relationship

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.”

Happens Life Is Waiting Rich Motherhood Pregnancy Steady Pregnant Pregnant Women Were Pregnant Waiting For Something Being Pregnant Beautiful Pregnancy Pregnant Inspirational Inspirational Pregnancy

Author:E. B. White

“One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.”

Accepting Mystery Miracle Motherhood Pregnant Being Pregnant

Author:Natalie Portman

“I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking." And then you have a child and yes, everything changes. It affects the way we live, what we do, and where we go - everything. And I wouldn't have in any other way.”

People Thinking Way Believe Children Remember Life Is Motherhood Believe In Me Things Change Way Of Thinking Bourgeois

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“To give life another being, what a gift! When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditial love... I never felt so complete and empowered in my life.”

Giving Eye Felt Arms Motherhood Overwhelming Empowered

Author:Gisele Bundchen

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