Chirlane McCray Quotes

I get looks like I can't raise my child, but I can.

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

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.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.

I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother.

The maternal instinct is in me.

This whole thing of motherhood is insane.

American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.

We need to recognize how difficult and important being a mother is.

Like most women, I always dreamed of becoming a mother.

A mother should never be blamed for working.

I never really believe people when they say they have no regrets - mine is not being a mother.

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

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.

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.