I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

In the space of his years, my body had taken its full shape and my heart had grown in wisdom, for I understood what it was to be a mother.

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

Motherhood is a constant battle of going to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and staying awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.

Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.