How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No. A woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness. G.K. Chesterton

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I think motherhood is the noblest task of all, because you cannot do it at your convenience, or tailor it to suit your preferences. You have to be ready to give up everything when you take on this task: your time, restful nights, your hobbies, your pursuit of physical fitness, any beauty you may have had, and all of the private little pleasures you might have counted as a right, from late dinners and long soaks in the tub to weekend excursions and cycling tripsI'm not saying you can't have any of these things, but you have to be ready to let them all go if you're going to have children and put them first. Johann Christoph Arnold

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A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty. Sarah Strohmeyer

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Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period. Susan J. Douglas

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It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one. I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied _by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history. Jojo Moyes

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New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland. Debra Gilbert Rosenberg

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Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance. Nicole Krauss

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It_takes someone really brave to be a mother, someone strong to raise a child and someone special to love someone more than herself. Ritu Ghatourey

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Just_because you give birth to a child doesn't make you a mother! Being a mother means taking care of your kids, cuddling, watching them grow, watching them play and argue, being there for the good and the bad, and most importantly showing them your unconditional love every second of EVERYDAY! unknown

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A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. Mark Twain

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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate._ Charlotte Gray

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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't._ Barbara Kingsolver

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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away Dinah Craik

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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best. Hamilton Wright Mabie

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The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller. Olivia Wilde

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I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It's such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It's bliss, love and fulfillment of another level. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

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Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it. Diane Keaton

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A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in her arms. A mother knows what dangers the child will have to encounter as he grows up. She does not let the father reassure her when he makes light of things and says that the children have to find their own way. A mother worries, for she carries the burden, and she often sees much deeper than the father just where the child is in danger. Johann Christoph Blumhardt

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I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is. Ayelet Waldman

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It is clear that we have to come down a bit from the high horse of reason on which we enjoy sitting. We have to be simple and take time to think how to make things understandable to the little ones. We have to become children again, and some find that too hard. Johann Christoph Blumhardt

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Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children. Maxim Gorky

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Motherhood meant I have written four fewer books, but I know more about life. A.S. Byatt

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert

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WE expect just about everything from our mothers, even when life forces us to admit our mother's weaknesses and shortcomings. And that is because, at least in our collective imagination, a mother remains an extraordinary figure, in some cases more divine than human, and certainly an image of virtue and wisdom. Marta Alvarez Gonzalez

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A mother's love is the beginning and end of every love. Georg Walter Groddeck

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A good mother sees more with one eye than a father does with ten. Italian Proverb

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo

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Women are never tired of being mothers, and...they would rock death itself if death came to sleep on their knees. Maurice Maeterlinck

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Oh, how powerful is motherhood. It possesses an enchantment that bewitches all women, making them fight fiercely to defend their children. Euripides

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