Close your eyes and stare into the dark. My father’s advice when I couldn’t sleep as a little girl. He wouldn’t want me to do that now but I’ve set my mind to the task...

As parents we’re meant to help each other out and build each other up.

Someday you’ll understand. You’ll have your own children, and they’ll mean more to you than the world. A wife has to defend her children, even against her own husband. Not that I expect you to...

I’d just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I’d made life. At the very instant he was put into my arms, I loved this new person more than anyone but a...

Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child...

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn’t even have the strength to feel guilty.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I’m wearing will never really fit.

Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can’t protect her child – not from pain, or...

Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home....

Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and show me how to be the mother and father I never had. I’ll make a...

Sometimes, she wondered what she was missing, if her life was somehow incomplete because she didn’t see the reflection of her face in the face of a son or daughter. Maybe. That’s what mothers told...

…”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...

Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don’t get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class

She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of a mother. The bond between a mother and her child...

No one will ever love me that much again.

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

New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland.-Being a mother is one of the most rewarding jobs on earth and also one of the most challenging.-Motherhood is a process. Learn...

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.

Shall I tell you something I’ve been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have...

Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the sky.To the great fire that boils the daily pot.To all the things we are not remembered by,Which...

Isolation can be a particular problem for mothers at home with small children. Mothers become isolated from each other because we fear judgement. Other mothers can be our harshest critics. And we anticipate that criticism...

For me, adoption was grief in reverse.

You don’t need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the...

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

The best thing she was, was her children.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

A loose end – that’s what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the...

Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Everything that happened to you [her child] happened to me. I had once heard children described in a novel as “hostages...

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.

Motherhood:The most exhausting, emotional, rewardingand life-enhancing journey a woman can take.

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from...

Now let’s make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie’s Organic Mac & Cheese?

whoever has grown without a mother has missed half of his/her lifetime

Now that Olive was grown, I didn’t know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing, like a view or a child, but that was risky. You had so...

Maybe I stepped into the skin my mother left behind, and became the girl my mother had been, the one she still wanted to be. Maybe I was wearing her youth now like an airy...

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to...

I realized, listening to the silences that fell sometimes in my interview groups, that there are things that are sayable and unsayable about motherhood today. It is permissable, for example, to talk a lot about...

On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen, washing up the morning dishes she’d ignored, then getting dinner started. She measured...