Motherhood Quotes

The more people you love, the weaker you are. You’ll do things for them that you know you shouldn’t do. You’ll act the fool to make them happy, to keep them safe. Love no one but your children. On that front, a mother has no choice.

You never love anything in the world the way you love your first child.

I love meeting people’s moms. It’s like reading an instruction manual as to why they’re nuts.

Sadness is a condition of motherhood.

You will not make your lives smaller because of me. This thing that’s happening to me will not be the thing that holds you back. So, take the risks. Make the big moves, even if they’re small moves. Forge ahead with your lives in any and every direction that moves you. I am your mother, and I’m sick. And I’m asking you to be fearless.[to her children]

Mothers can endure anything. A child’s first act on this planet is to tear his mother in two. Rip her apart from the inside. What emerges is a life completely dependent on her. For food, warmth, comfort, protection. The child will speak a language devised solely of wails and murmurs and furrowed brows and the mother understands this language the instant it is spoken. The mother is consumed and driven by a love that is indescribable to those who have not experienced it. It is not the butterflies of infatuation. It is the instinct of love.

Being a mother looks like all kinds of things.

You’re gonna be a mom. You’re gonna worry, that goes with the gig. 99% of the time, everything works out just fine.[to Lea]

You know, I can never go back. Too many people want me dead. Canada won’t give me a passport, and neither will the EU, so looks like I’m just nobody.[Serena Joy]You’re his mother. Just be that.[June Osborne]

You know I’m gonna have a family of my own one day? Yeah. And I’m gonna be the mother that I never had. I’m gonna be kind, nurturing, supportive. And, oh, you know what? It might be too ambitious, but I’m not gonna make my child feel like they were the worst thing that ever happened to me.[to Mrs. Kannerman]

When I look at you, I see all of you. I see every Kate you’ve ever been, every Kate you might still be. Yeah, you might not have been an easy daughter all the time, but you’ve always, always been easy to love.[to Kate]

We mothers do what we can to keep our sons from the grave.