#motherhood

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

— Cynthia Nixon

#known #life #motherhood #my life #only

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

#best #biggest #biggest surprise #i #i do

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

#another #because #changed #doing #even

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

#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else

Are we always to be wanting what isn't: the greenest grass accord and principle motherhood and career? Yet our age lies to us like an asp, whispering. "Both. ↗

— Barbara Crooker

#age

..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem was that all too many of them HAD gotten a man, married him, had his kids, and then discovered that, as mothers, they were never supposed to have their own money, their own identity, their own aspirations, time to pee, or a brain. And yes, some women indeed became bad-tempered as a result. After all, no anger, no social change. ↗

— Susan J. Douglas

#motherhood #anger

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#beauty

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

#children #love #motherhood #life

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special. ↗

— Charles Duhigg

#business

Mama Ginger came calling, to set the alarm on my biological clock. Oh, and to remind me that there’s no point to me being a woman if I never have children.” “Well, if that’s true, I wasted a hell of a lot of money on panty hose and lipstick.” Jettie snorted. ↗

— Molly Harper

#humor #motherhood #women #dating