Top 171 Motherhood Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Motherhood Quotes from famous people such as Manushi Chhillar, Meghan Daum, Rachel Cusk, Kim Brooks, Sucheta Dalal, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Motherhood is the most beautiful thing that can happen

Motherhood is the most beautiful thing that can happen to a woman.
Manushi Chhillar
Mother’s Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed.
Meghan Daum
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.
Rachel Cusk
A lot of my friends aren’t parents. I find this culture of all-consuming motherhood so oppressive. Not that I don’t like to talk about my kids, but if I’m socializing, I don’t want to talk about Montessori versus Waldorf.
Kim Brooks
Motherhood, pester power and emotional blackmail – Indian marketers have cottoned on to the fact that these three themes can sell just about anything – from food and toys, to insurance products, tonics, televisions and air-conditioners.
Sucheta Dalal
Motherhood is exhausting, but you get to know the deeper ramifications of it as you go along.
Konkona Sen Sharma
I much prefer grandmotherhood to motherhood.
Sheila Hancock
I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am – I’m the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect – that motherhood – naturally.
Katy Mixon
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
Camille Paglia
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
I want to understand rites of passage I’ve never experienced, like motherhood.
Kathy Burke
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
I felt this during the first few months of my motherhood. You lose who you are – you lose your identity – because when your baby comes, you give, give, give, and no one gives back, and you just wonder, ‘Who am I?’ ‘What am I?’ ‘How do I live life now?’ It’s all for this baby.
Brie Bella
Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective – with a sense of wonderment.
Juhi Chawla
I think, in all fields, there’s this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother – and this is true whether you give birth or adopt – you’re perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they’re fathers.
Nell Scovell
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It’s practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
Barbara Kingsolver
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
Motherhood’s a gift denied to so many women who are so deserving of babies, so whenever I feel like I need a good whinge, I remind myself how lucky I am to even be a mum.
Gemma Atkinson
I don’t know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It’s such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It’s bliss, love and fulfillment of another level.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
The challenge with WWE was keeping up with the schedule and trying to stay healthy and uninjured during that time. Now, with motherhood, the biggest responsibility is trying to protect this little baby and care for her and her needs.
Beth Phoenix
New motherhood is such a vulnerable and powerful time, but it’s also really hard.
Eva Amurri
The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us.
Ashton Shepherd
I think motherhood is just about instinct.
Kourtney Kardashian
My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,’ she reflects. ‘He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.’
Diane Keaton
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
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn’t know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
Deborah Norville
Motherhood is the greatest thing I’ve ever done in my life.
Sara Rue
I don’t want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There’s a time to work, there’s a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I’m actually looking forward to that.
Diane Kruger
Before motherhood, I had a feeling that unmarried women are the strongest. However, that changed after my son was born.
Navya Nair
People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She’s number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
Imelda May
I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone’s going to tell you how to do it and why. I’ve always said to other mothers and women when they’ve asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.
Brooke Burke
I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood ha

I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn’t; and that’s not to say that there aren’t many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life’s passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there’s something different about maternity.
Rumaan Alam
Motherhood made me a better person.
Jessie James Decker
Motherhood is a beautiful, wonderful gift… except when it’s not.
Rachel Hollis
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
Madhur Bhandarkar
Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.
Sheri L. Dew
Motherhood and marriage are the best bits of my life now. Who would have thought I would be enjoying that?
Rebecca Loos
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
The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
Victoria Billings
So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it’s the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
Gayle Forman
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
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
There’s so much dishonesty with motherhood in general… The truth is it’s just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.
Catherine Reitman
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
Iyanla Vanzant
I really love doing simple things. I’m surrounded by people all the time at work, so I want to have a normal life when I’m off duty: motherhood, food, and love!
Bianca Balti
My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.
Misty May-Treanor
A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn’t be thinking, ‘I wish I didn’t have to do this.’
Sophie Hannah
Writing something about motherhood, I think that would be pretty cheesy.
Lights
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it’s a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
Sellapan Ramanathan
Whenever I write about motherhood – and I write about it a lot – I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.
Kristin Hannah
At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
Saffron Aldridge
I think birth and motherhood are not things that you’re trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.
Julie Andrews
A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a ‘real’ woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.
Jessica Valenti
As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.
Rose Kennedy
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver