They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled, someone deep and rich as a field, a wide-hipped mother, awesome, immense, women like huge soft couches, mothers coursing with blood, mother's big enough, wide enough for us to hide in, to sink down to the bottom of of, mother's who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.
Janet FitchTags: pain suffering motherhood mother childbirth goddess divine-feminine mothers-and-daughters virgin-mary
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
Barbara KingsolverTags: love children motherhood babies
Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.
Rebecca WoolfTags: motherhood
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.
Anna QuindlenTags: motherhood
I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.
Neal ShustermanTags: motherhood mothers
(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
Jodi PicoultTags: motherhood parenting
You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.
Zadie SmithTags: motherhood
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.
Lisa SeeTags: motherhood unconditional-love
I could not get my fill of looking.
There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.
Tags: love motherhood childbirth
It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
Betty SmithTags: children motherhood
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