#motherhood

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#being #compassionate #constantly #director #i

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#accident #become #becomes #children #deep

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#believes #big #circus #crisis #deal

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. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#motherhood #parenting #parenting

I'm blessed and I couldn't be more grateful. Do you want to know why? Because I'm a mother, but that's only half of it. I'm blessed because, when I need to, I can still just be a daughter. I get the feeling that there is nothing more precious than to have both of these roles, simultaneously. ↗

— Adrianna Stepiano

#motherhood #mothers-and-daughters #motherhood

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~ ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#life-lessons #motherhood #mothering #experience

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand. ↗

— James T. Farrell

#life

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#motherhood #parents #nature

I remember the shift that occurred after Abby was born - there'd been the great big before, where dying grandparents and natural disasters on the news were sad but mostly distant concerns. But then I became a mother, and when that happens, you cross a line that makes all loss a crushing, personal matter. ↗

— DEB CALLETI

#motherhood #nature

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#parenting #parenting