#motherhood

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. ↗

— Ricki Lake

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Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

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The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do. ↗

— Deborah Norville

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

— Meg Ryan

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I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. ↗

— Sissy Spacek

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It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. ↗

— L.R. Knost

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Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. ↗

— Janet Goodfriend

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Mother seemed happiest when making and tending home, the sewing machine whistling and the Mixmaster whirling. Her deepest impulse was to nurture, to simply dwell; it had nothing to do with ambition and achievement in the world...How had I come to believe that my world of questing and writing was more valuable than her dwelling and domestic artistry?...I wanted to go out and do things--write books, speak out. I've been driven by that. I don't know how to rest in myself very well, how to be content staying put. But Mother knows how to BE at home--and really, to be in herself. It's actually very beautiful what she does...I think part of me just longs for the way Mother experiences home. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. 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. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children. ↗

— Jane Austen

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