Maternal Emotions Quotes

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

Being pregnant is a marvellous experience. Before, I was afraid about the idea of giving birth, but now, I'm really looking forward to it.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

There are such wonderful blessings in my life - I have this amazing baby, an amazing family, and I loved X Factor - all these moments of joy, and then these sharp drop-offs. I'd be awake, lying in bed, crying. There's these weird moments of misplaced anger I have.

I remember, when I was a teenager, people telling me, 'You know, when you are a mother, you will never feel lonely. You will feel so much love, and you will be fulfilled by this love.' Then I became a mother. And I learnt that is absolutely wrong: you can feel very lonely with your children, even if you love them.

I actually think being involved in the cesarean would be... I just can't wait!

There is something very beautiful about being pregnant. I think I enjoy being pregnant more than not being pregnant. I know it could go either way, and the next pregnancy could be the complete opposite.

It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.

~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

I certainly know what it is like to go to work and leave your baby at home. It is an ache that only other mothers can understand. I always say that it feels like you've left a limb at home. And I really struggled for the first few months of work. There were times when I shut myself in my room and cried.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

I think everybody feels their pregnancy differently, and for me, I was so in work mode.

I have no problem being full-term pregnant and do not understand women who say, 'I can't wait to get this baby out of me!'

It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.