Definition of Motherhood

Motherhood

The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.

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Motherhood Quotations

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
Angelina Jolie

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Honore De Balzac

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore De Balzac

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
Isadora Duncan

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
Art Linkletter

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Rebecca West

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
Anne Tyler

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
Natalie Wood

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.
Laurel Clark

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
Tea Leoni

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Paul Harris

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.
Joan Chen

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.
Meg Ryan

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.
Jody Watley

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.
Gloria Estefan

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
Ricki Lake

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Helen Hunt Jackson

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
Joan Blades

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
Anita Baker

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
Crystal Eastman

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.
Cass Elliot

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
Felicity Huffman

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.
Jane Seymour

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
Sissy Spacek

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
Sellapan Ramanathan

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Motherhood Translations

motherhood in German is Mutterschaft
motherhood in Spanish is maternidad
motherhood in Swedish is moderskap

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