MOMB – noun – One who can deal with all of the INSANITY of being a MOM… Because she’s the BOMB!

Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby’s body. Only he wasn’t a baby anymore, and how often did...

[F]eminism wasn’t supposed to make us feel guilty, or prod us into constant competition over who is raising children better, organizing more cooperative marriages, or getting less sleep. It was supposed to make us free...

She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen,...

Whatever life brings, we’ll share,” she says, and “I can do no more than the best I can.

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what’s...

On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it’s frumpy mother.

noble” – be willing to someday join a larger conversation about how we might work together as a society to construct a world where healthy children can be raised and healthy families can prosper without...

Young women are closer to the time when they were manipulative and childish and they don’t let their babies manipulate them as much as older mothers do. These are only my conclusions from watching children...

Imagine that the world had created a new ‘dream product’ to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their...

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again.House-builder, you’re seen!You will not build a house again.All your rafters broken,the ridge pole destroyed,gone...

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul;...

When you’re a passenger on an airplane, you are told that in the event of a change in cabin pressure, you should put your mask on first and then assist your children. You can’t help...

Two Songs For The World’s End I Bombs ripen on the leafless tree under which the children play. And there my darling all alone dances in the spying day. I gave her nerves to feel...

Women are like trees, growing slowly over time. So many rings creating layers of maturity as their branches spread and reach out to the sky. Motherhood prunes those branches. Sometimes it prunes them back hard...

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband’s, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.

liberating” moms by trying tomake them join the workforce. They’re already doing the job that God putthem here to do: Everything.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Supermom wasn’t a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways.

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.

It seems to me that since I’ve had children, I’ve grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self...

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

While parenthood served as no disadvantage at all to men, there was evidence of a substantial “motherhood penalty”. Mothers received only half as many callbacks as their identically qualified childless counterparts.

He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new idea and wonder what effect it would have on him, because, with Edgar,...

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

…motherhood is the thing in a woman’s life that catches her by total and complete surprise.

I’m getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours and rustle up good meals and do all the chores and run errands...

I don’t think the world should assume that we are all natural mothers. And it does. I don’t think it’s such a big thing anymore, but the idea that you sacrifice everything for your children—it’s...

-what’s really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it’s a reflection on us as mothers. Because we believe we should be able to...

What you call your life is not yours at all–not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. . . . In fleeting moments of deep satisfaction and insight, I saw the...

Too many times I’d left him reaching for me, from a babysitter’s arms. “Am I still a mother?” I asked myself… What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough?...

I think women should have choices and should be able to do what they like, and I think it’s a great choice to stay at home and raise kids, just as it’s a great choice...

Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love.

I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the...

This is one of the weird things about motherhood. You can predict that some of your best moments will happen around the toilet at six am while you’re holding a pile of fingernail clipping like...

Fear not, the time is comingFear not, your bones are strongFear not, help is nearbyFear not, Gula is nearFear not, the baby is at the doorFear not, he will live to bring you honorFear not,...

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.

But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

[On visitors after having a new baby…] “Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets past that front door unless they come bearing one of two things: food...

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because...

Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it’s against the rules, isn’t it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn’t.

Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had a kid… I was still me, with all my holes and problems and...

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the...

My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me – the humiliation of it – as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...