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mom-in-chief.” My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Motherhood is precious.Value it responsibly or don’t be

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

Giving up every molecule of your soul. If you want anything for yourself, you’re accused of being selfish. Marriage and especially motherhood mean being condemned to play second fiddle your entire life.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human?I’m not sure. That’s...

The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don’t have a daughter, but maybe the...

I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just...

My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met.

Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother’s love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one...

Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children....

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

A mother’s love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends.

In most families, care-giving becomes the woman’s responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don’t have support or make time for self care.

A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response, her attitude, even her appearance and manner of dress affect...

He did not smile. ‘We are the keepers of the world’s greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?’ “My children are my greatest treasures,’ she said. ‘Stone no matter how old, means nothing to...

A mother’s love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn’t matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

Out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at the one breast it flowed like a fountain from the...

I’d wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice that said the world was dangerous and safety was always the first measure...

I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need and modeling for them the depths of Christ’s love.”…make myself available in the routine tasks and...

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered...

Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

No children were harmed or neglected during the writing of this book.

God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don’t ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

I can feel them. The babies. They’re not crawling all over me. They’re not vomiting in my hair or shrieking. They’re doing perfectly normal baby things, and I’m keeping them alive. But I resent them....

Our society encourages women to place a very high value on maternity as an essential part of female identity, both a high moral calling and the deepest source of satisfaction on earth. It’s not easy...

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh…

Something is missing, and it’s something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a lack of work, or too much work, or a lack of adequate child...

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.

As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering...

Yes it’s true, you wake the child inside of you up because you’re a Mom!

But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And...

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

Being mom is one of my favorite things. It makes my day watching my kids grow and accomplish things in their lives.

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.

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...

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

I thought that teaching twenty-eight energetic and needy children how to read had to be the hardest job on earth. I was wrong – mothering was. Now I had to give up my right to...

Look, I tell the T-ball mothers. Childhood is oppressive. I determine what the boy’s eating and when. I tell him when he’s going to bed and when he can get up. I tell him when...

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

The phrase “working mother” is redundant.

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on

Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread.

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken...

There’s a reason why the assumed goal for women in virginity-movement screeds is marriage and motherhood only: The movement only believes that’s the only thing women are meant for.