Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.

There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood.

The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.

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

We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.

I love the surprise element of being a mom.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

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

I always wanted to be a mommy.

I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything.

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

I've always wanted to be a mommy.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant, you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

I love being a mother. I think it's so incredible.

Mothers can do anything. They have ways of finding out if you have eaten or not.

I just know I have so much to teach my child. And I just feel kind of like, what would our world be without mothers? What would our world be without mother love? I don't think we'd have a world.

Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.