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The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
Sep 10, 2025
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.
Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
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.
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
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