Favorite Quotes on Motherhood

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. Erma Bombeck

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die. Mary Mason

There is an amazed curiosity in every young mother. It is strangely miraculous to see and to hold a living being formed within oneself and issued forth from oneself. Simone de Beauvoir

I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living
My baby you’ll be.
Robert Munsch

You are the trip I did not take; You are the pearls I cannot buy; You are my blue Italian lake; You are my piece of foreign sky. (“To My Child,” quoted in Charles L. Wallis, ed., The Treasure Chest [1965], 54)

Making the decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Elizabeth Stone