Motherhood Quotes
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Carolyn Wells
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
Erica Jong
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Poor Christine! She had long ago spent the days of her young motherhood in the marketplace, and now that they were all squandered, she had so few pleasant things left to remember. So she crouched low over the dull embers of a few half-memories in order to warm her old heart.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
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...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
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I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women are uniquely applicable to other realms as well, such as compassionate service and teaching.
Russell M. Nelson
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Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.
Erma Bombeck
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I dig being a mother.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
Erica Jong
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Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.
Erma Bombeck
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That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.
Melissa Peterman
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It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.
Erma Bombeck
