motherly duties Quotes

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

Being a mother has made my life complete.

Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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.

I'm working 18 hour days and I'm feeling guilty not being able to be there when all those times I want to be mother.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

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

As moms, we have so much on our plates. We're busy, and our family depends on us for a lot of things.

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.

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'

I always carry snacks in my bag. It's a good habit to have now that I am a mom.

I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother -- cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.

I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.

My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

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

I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.

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.

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

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.