My pregnancy really did restart my body and my metabolism and everything.

I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly...

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

Have we ever wondered a mother's silent cries? Her struggles, her fears and her worries? Do we ever have time for this in our busy lives? Have we ever thought of the sacrifices she has done in order...

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers - - strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.

Being mom is one of my favorite things. It makes my day watching my kids grow and accomplish things in their lives.

Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and...

For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.

If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been...

Thank you for this precious day, These gifts you give to me, My heart so full of love for you, Sings praise for all I see, Oh, sing, for every mother's love, For every childhood tear, Oh, sing, for...

As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent. She had not needed his father's tactless comment to understand the full implications of...

Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. 'Erzulie, mother loa, help it be born,' Tete prayed aloud. 'Saint Raymond Nonatus, pay attention, do not let an...

"Tell me how you do it, Marmee dear." "My good mother used to help me... " "As you do us... " interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss. "But I lost her when I was a little older than you are"

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a...

Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how often...

....I persist in examining Mumma from all of the angles available to me I will learn. Not learn how to be a good mother to Sarah, who abandoned me on the sidewalk in front of the school building on...

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

The best thing she was, was her children.

Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It...

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes...

On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen, washing up the morning dishes she'd ignored, then getting dinner started. She...

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.