Motherhood has changed me as a person. I’m much happier and very content with life. That can only transfer positively to the track. It will make me a better athlete. – Jessica Ennis-Hill
I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom. I came up with an idea for a story about motherhood that I would want to read. – Katherine Center
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things. – Rachel Cusk
As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag. – Pete Gallego
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it. – Rachel Cusk
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. – Patricia Hill Collins
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years. – Thomas Frank
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it’s a motherhood statement, all of us like it. – Sellapan Ramanathan
I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show. – Tamra Davis
At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood. – Saffron Aldridge
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years. – Taslima Nasrin
Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds. – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter. – Susan Cheever
First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn’t as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people. – Tea Leoni
My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it. – Susan Egan
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail. – Sheri L. Dew
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. – Sissy Spacek