Mothers - Motherhood Quotes

I find it offensive to motherhood to call being a mother a job.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope. (“Nicholas Nickleby”)

My mother and father didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.

Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary — it’s an act of infinite optimism.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you.

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