J. K. Rowling Quotes

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

Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

My career choice was to be a mother.

Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.

I like being a mother.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

I'm not made to be a mother.

Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.

I always wanted to be a mother first.

In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.

I'm the mother of four.

Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.

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

Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job.' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.

As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering (not the value of children) has declined for women, making it all the harder for men to take it up.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.

A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.

Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?