Motherhood Role Quotes

There are very few women in the Senate and very few mothers.

Til marriage and motherhood happened, I was devoted to my work. I didn't see anything beyond it.

Being a full-time mother is one of the biggest jobs in the world; it's like another career for me. I love every moment of it - even the challenge of making cupcakes.

Nothing makes my buttocks clench tighter and my teeth itch more than 'Full Time Mummy'. Full time mummy is not a job title. It is a biological status.

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

I've always wanted to be an actress. At school and in college, I did some things. But then I married, and then I had children, and then there were the political years.

The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career.

Growing up, I didn't see that many Muslims on TV and we don't see many now. But essentially I am a mother and that's the job I know best.

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.

The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?

Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

I don't get that with the nannies. What's your point if you have a child and you aren't raising it?

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.