#motherhood

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#difficult #motherhood #rewarding

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither. ↗

— William Trevor

#enormously #every #fiction #find #i

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#balancing #being #career #challenge #ever

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? ↗

— Emma Goldman

#anything #criminal #function #glorified #indeed

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#equality

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#exercise #guilt #motherhood

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#daughter #early #eight #especially #go

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. ↗

— Anita Baker

#capture #close #come #completeness #describing

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#greater #laws #motherhood #natural #natural laws

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#doubt #life #matters #motherhood #my life