#motherhood

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it. ↗

— Victoria Billings

#best #could #fewer #going #happen

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. ↗

— Joan Blades

#given #manifesto #motherhood #mothers #need

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice. ↗

— Susan Chira

#burden #consistent #gift #most #motherhood

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#came #career #comes #had #i

Progress is hardly ever dramatic; in fact, it is usually very slow. As every parent and teacher knows, education is never a matter of ten-step plans or quick formulas, but of faithful commitment to the mundane challenges of daily life: getting up from the sofa to spend time with our children, loving them and disciplining them, becoming involved in their lives at school and, most important, making sure they have a wholesome family life to return to at home. Maybe that is why Jesus teaches us to ask for strength little by little, on a daily basis - "Give us this day our daily bread" - and why he stresses the significance of even the smallest, humblest beginnings: "Wherever two of you agree about anything you ask for, it shall be done for you... For where two or three come together in my name, I shall be with them" (Mt. 18:19-20). ↗

— Johann Christoph Arnold

#education

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#being pregnant #difficult #many #more #motherhood

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#am #best #decisions #despite #difficult

Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember. ↗

— Nancy E. Turner

#death #mother #motherhood #understanding #death

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock my the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#unconditional-love #change

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step. ↗

— Sandra Steingraber

#motherhood #parenting #faith