(55 quotes found)
“Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand.”
Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson
“The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.”
Erma Bombeck
“Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's”
George Bernard Shaw
“I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood”
Dan Castellaneta
“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie
“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
“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
“Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born”
Margaret Widdemer
“We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.”
Sameerah Shareef
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
Meryl Streep
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