Winona Ryder Quotes

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

I thought I knew what love was before giving birth to my baby, but whatever I had experienced in the past paled in comparison to the utterly unconditional love I immediately felt for the little bundle I now held in my arms.

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.

The greatest love I believe... the greatest love I have is for my children, but I think the greatest love probably universally is a mother's love for a child.

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.

When you become a mother, it's a common thing that you just want to put every ounce of your being into your child, which is a very beautiful experience.

One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.

The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it's a very powerful relationship if it's healthy.

And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.

You don't know what love is until you meet your child.

I've never experienced the love I have for my daughter.

I used to think that only a mother could provide unconditional love and make sacrifices.

Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me the way he does; I just didn't know that I'd have to give birth to him.

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.