You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child… There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to...

Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: controlled,...

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?…I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that...

One unforeseen advantage of having a child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart’s content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

Life will never be the same again. Life will be better.

It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.

Our Company was participating in a management seminar in which we were taught a strategy that goes by the unlovely name of ‘reverse your buts.’ I did not make this up! It works like this:Maybe...

Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.

I’m pregnant.” I instinctively picture a sixteen-year-old at the dinner table- pale, unwell, with a scoundrel of a boyfriend- forcing herself to blurt out her mother’s deepest fear.) (27)

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage

Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he’s scared of the raghnaid?

For as long as I am your mother and you are my only child, i will worry and hope and pray for you. Do not ask the impossible.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl’s highest calling. I hope I am ready.

My daughter asked me what it’s like to have children… So I followed her to the washroom every time she went and asked her questions through the door until she lost her S#!T…

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

If you aren’t nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

The outrageous madonna/whore duality that we mock in Women’s Studies 101 has its subtle, and very insidious, expression in the good/bad mother paradigm that we grapple with every day of our lives.

This is the book, then , and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your child–even though you yourself do not understand what is written down and...

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.

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...

I remember the sift 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...

No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers...

SHE holds the hand to help you in your First Step,She is your First Teacher,SHE holds your hand when You Fall Down,SHE is the one who guides you in Life,SHE hides you from all Trouble,SHE...

To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching...

If it weren’t for me, she wouldn’t have to take jobs like this. She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. I felt my guilt...

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

Fatigue is an excellent gauge of well-being because it is a very hard symptom to mask. The only way to get rid of fatigue is to treat the underlying causes. Fatigue has many faces, but...

Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter...

It is clear that we have to come down a bit from the high horse of reason on which we enjoy sitting. We have to be simple and take time to think how to make...

(Georgie) Two hundred years later and it’s exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work.

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

The recent spate of magazines for “parents” (i.e., mothers) bombard the anxiety-induced mothers of America with reassurances that they can (after a $100,000 raise and a personality transplant) produce bright, motivated, focused, fun-loving, sensitive, cooperative,...

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one...

Even if i’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends...

I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving upon our mothers and sisters, and the influence they wield, I look upon them as the mainspring...

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Near the end of Love’s Labor, Eva Feder Kittay (1999, 154) writes that a fundamental aspect of a just society is related to the conditions and limits of mothering. In a just society, women with...

A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she thought.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Real motherhood is different. It’s better and it’s messier and it’s more complicated. It will break your heart and make you laugh harder than you ever imagined. You find yourself alternating between feeling like your...

Mother doesn’t cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children. This sounds noble on the surface but in fact it’s doing no one–...

Oh, that boy is in so much trouble.’ Exie screeches out of the parking lot as if Jerran can hear her.

Well, if that’s true, I wasted a hell of a lot of money on panty hose and lipstick.” Jettie snorted.

What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God’s hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.