Challenges of Motherhood Quotes

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

I expected to have one husband and seven babies. Instead I had seven husbands and one living baby.

I just love motherhood.

Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

Motherhood is quite challenging. Everyday is a whole new adventure with your child.

I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.

It's been so wonderful to hear the realities behind motherhood.

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".

As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.

I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'

Nothing really prepared me for the amount of work, or the amount of rewards, that came with being a new mom.

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

I also feel like motherhood, especially, is seen usually in movies with this saintly veil over it. There's something about tipping that and showing what's actually going on. Or the wish fulfillment of probably most moms, which is really exciting. It's an area that's unexplored.