Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romola Garai

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Nelly Furtado

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.

John Eldredge

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. (What’s Wrong with the World)

Edith Wharton

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Deborah Norville

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.

Cynthia Nixon

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

Courteney Cox

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

Richelle Mead

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Monica Denise Brown

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

Kate Morton

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

Leo Tolstoy

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Lenny Kravitz

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

Karen Kingsbury

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

George Leigh Mallory

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Madeleine L'Engle

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

Katherine Center

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.