Motherhood is an all-encompassing and life-altering experience that changes us forever. It means something different to all of us and affects us all uniquely.
Despite the diversity of mothering choices and styles that exist in our modern times, we are bonded together by something truly incredible: we are mothers.
It takes a truly gifted person to find the right words, in the right combination, that come close to capturing the love, emotion, fear and exhaustion that come hand-in-hand with the journey and experiences of motherhood. Because there really is nothing else quite like it.
Motherhood Quotes That Totally Nail Motherhood
Here are 20 famous motherhood quotes that perfectly sum up what it’s like to be a mother — and don’t forget to let us know which is your favourite in the comments section below!
#1: Robert Browning, Poet And Playwright, 1875:
“Motherhood; All love begins and ends there.”
#2: Elizabeth Stone
“Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.”
#3: Cardinal Mermillod
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
#4: Linda Wootten
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.”
#5: Honore de Balzac
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
#6: Kate Winslet
“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.”
#7: Oprah Winfrey
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
#8: Dorothy On The Golden Girls,
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”
#9: J K Rowling, Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone
“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.”
#10: Angie Harmon
“My children are my life … It’s not like I don’t have my own wants and and dreams anymore — it’s just that the kids come first.”
#11: Robert Munsch, Love You Forever
“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be.”
#12: Mark Wahlberg
“As far as I’m concerned, there’s no job more important on the planet than being a mom.”
#13: Debra Ginsberg
“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did – that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that – a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”
#14: Rebecca Woolf
“Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.”
#15: Tina Fey
“I never get to go to movies, because I’m a mom.”
#16: Amy Poehler
“Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.”
#17: Roald Dahl, Matilda
“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”
#18: Donna Ball, At Home On Ladybug Farm
“[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.”
#19: Roseanne Barr
“I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.”
#20: Jewish Proverb
“God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.”
Which was your favourite motherhood quote? Do you know of any others? Let us know!
