1. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
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2. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”
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3. “To all mothers in every circumstance, including those who struggle, I say, ‘Be peaceful. Believe in God and yourself. You are doing better than you think you are.”
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4. “Working moms, stay at home moms, they’re both extremely hard jobs.”
5. “If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘keep away from children’.”
6. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
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7. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
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8. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.”
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9. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
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10. “Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.”
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11. “The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
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12. “A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”
13. “But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself.”
14. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.”
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15. “I’ve seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.”
16. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
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17. “It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
18. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.”
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19. “Good moms have homes that are clean enough to be healthy and messy enough to be happy.”
20. “Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn’t an option for me currently.”
21. “Don’t do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life.”
22. “Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”
23. “All that I am or hope ever to be, I get from my mother”
24. “I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.”
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25. “Your most valuable parenting skill is learning to manage yourself first.”
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26. “Whether you are a stay-at-home mom, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.”
27. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.”
28. “I would like to have a family someday, and I can’t wait to be a stay-at-home mom.”
29. “Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”
30. “I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”
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31. “A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
32. “I think women should have choices and should be able to do what they like, and I think it’s a great choice to stay-at-home and raise kids, just as it’s a great choice to have a career.”
33. “Being a mother redefines us, reinvents us, destroys and rebuilds us.”
34. “I’m a real stay-at-home mom. I’m really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.”
35. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing”
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36. “A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential- as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.”
37. “I think it’s a tough road if you’re a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don’t. It’s the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.”
38. “Finding balance as a mother means accepting your imperfections.”
39. “A working mom is judged negatively for letting someone else raise her kids, but a stay-at-home mom is accused of sacrificing her self-worth and providing an outdated role model for her children.”
40. “No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love.”
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41. “I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings, and in their public duties.”
42. “You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today’s world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.”
43. “I’m so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.”
44. “The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.”
45. “There’s something really empowering about going, ‘Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!’ That’s the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.”
46. “Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.”
47. “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.”
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48. “I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn’t suit me.”
49. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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50. “When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they are finished, I climb out.”
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51. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
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52. “I hate the phrase ‘having it all,’ because it demeans women who do stay home with their children by implying that their lives are less than full.”
53. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
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54. “There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.”
55. “This is my life; sitting around dying of boredom, the whining, the tantrums, the baby weight, the endlessness of it all.”
56. “There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.”
57. “Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else’s survival guide.”
58. “Being a mother is discovering strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you never knew existed.”
59. “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
60. “They’re the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning, and the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night.”
61. “A stay-at-home mom is a working mom. Being a stay-at-home mom is a job.”
62. “Having kids feels like that first seventh-grade crush that overwhelms every molecule in your body, but it’s permanent.”
63. “You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.”
64. “There’s no greater gift you can give your children than your time.”
65. “People don’t really talk honestly about how difficult being a mom actually is and what things we sacrifice every day in order to be good moms.”
66. “When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
67. “If you’re completely exhausted and don’t know how you’re going to keep giving this much of yourself day after day you’re probably a good parent.”
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68. “The most beautiful thing in this world is to see your parents smiling, and knowing that you are the reason behind that smile.”
69. “I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.”
70. “I see myself as a mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me, or fall apart around me, and at least I wake up with my kids, and I’m happy.”
71. “Being a mother is an honor for all of us–even when it is hard and exhausting!”
