Motherhood Quotes

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?[Mais la maternité, n’est-ce pas la Nature dans sa joie?]

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.[L’amour est profondément égoïste, tandis que la maternité tend à multiplier nos sentiments.]

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.[La science de la mère comporte des mérites silencieux, ignorés de tous, sans parade, une vertu en détail, un dévouement de toutes les heures.]

Not every woman wants to be a mother. More to the point, not every woman should be.

My mother’s face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.

Motherhood is living in the eye of a hurricane.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.[Il n’y a rien de visible, ni de perceptible dans la conception, ni même dans la grossesse; mais être nourrice, ma Louise, c’est un bonheur de tous les moments. ]

I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.[La maternité comporte une suite de poésies douces ou terribles. Pas une heure qui n’ait ses joies et ses craintes.]