Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there’s nothing disappointing about it. – Evangeline Lilly
I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don’t. – Natascha McElhone
Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is. – Patti Davis
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. – Ezra Taft Benson
I love motherhood. I certainly wasn’t aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn’t a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don’t get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists. – Deirdre O’Kane
I’ve always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world… that’s motherhood. – Cass Elliot
Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? – Emma Goldman
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That’s why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. – David Attenborough
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world. – Nita Ambani
I’ve always tried to control everything and every aspect of my life, and this is maybe the biggest lesson I’ve learnt with motherhood – you just can’t control everything, and I’m much more relaxed now about unexpected changes and things that happen. – Margherita Missoni
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact. – P. J. O’Rourke
A woman’s decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated as an act of bravery and selflessness – the ultimate standards of good motherhood. – Nina Easton
You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won’t shut up about it, but it’s not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn’t choose to be exposed. – Isla Fisher
The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don’t think I’ll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it. – Kerri Walsh Jennings
Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I’m grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated. – Kim Gordon
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. – Joan Blades
Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I’d ever meet anyone to have a baby with. – Mariella Frostrup
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me. – Kajol
A lot of people who wrote for ‘Sex and the City’ have gone to write about marriage and motherhood. – Liz Tuccillo
There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like – I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother. – Joan Chen
Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It’s so crazy how drastic even the small details change – in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots – conceited, I know! – but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason. – Kourtney Kardashian
For most of us, when our ‘dreams’ – I use the word with reservations – came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure. – Mariella Frostrup
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! – Katharine Lee Bates
You’re always going to feel like you’re catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men. – Kim Gordon
Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective – with a sense of wonderment. – Juhi Chawla