Maternal Responsibility Quotes

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks the cradlerules his world. . . . The son never forgets that he owes his life to his mother, not just the creation of it but the maintenance of it, and that he owes her a debt he cannot conceivably repay, but which she may call in at any time.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.

Some people here think they don’t have to breastfeed, and I think, ‘Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?’ There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

I never really believe people when they say they have no regrets - mine is not being a mother.

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.

I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

We need to recognize how difficult and important being a mother is.

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

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

I'd never felt afraid of pollution before and never wore a mask no matter where. But when you carry a life in you, what she breathes, eats and drinks are all your responsibility; then you feel the fear.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.