«Motherhood»

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

Motherhood is ‘heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.’

Olivia Wilde

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

Gloria Estefan

I think every working mom probably feels the same thing: You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible — oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

Tina Fey

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Erma Bombeck

I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.

Angelina Jolie

Never stop the vibe of parenthood. It just makes you see life in a more meaningful level.

Karl Gornal

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

Jessica Simpson

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

Helen Hunt Jackson

You instantly become less selfish. You can’t be the biggest person in the world anymore—they are. Motherhood really grounds you.

Keri Russell

It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.

Debra Messing

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.

Gilda Radner

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Isadora Duncan

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

Ricki Lake

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep