Kate Atkinson Quotes

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

I like being a mother.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

I had my little boy, and I took three years off to have him and be a mom.

I always wanted to be a mother first.

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

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

I love being a mom. That's the best job I've ever had. All the other stuff I love the same, but being a mom trumps all of it.

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

I've always wanted to have kids. I do think I would be a great mom.

I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.