“When exposed to a moving toy or a strange room, babies with cloth mothers rushed to them, buried their faces in the soft fabric and relaxed. Their peers, with only wire mothers, shook in terror against the wall. Left alone for months with only wire mothers, they pined away, staring at the world with…”— Barbara Smuts, nytimes.com
“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Before all of it, this record showed me, my mother was a girl who drew swirly hearts and had crushes and listened to The Monkees. She was a girl like me.”— Sandra Ebejer, psiloveyou.xyz
“That makes me happy because I didn’t ever have children, but I feel like I have a lot of daughters.”— Stevie Nicks, rollingstone.com
“The message behind loving your body is a well-intended one, but it’s not for everyone.”— De Elizabeth, editsfrommotherhood.com
“June George was a sex-positive, encouraging mother. Her daughter, on the other hand, was a little shit.”— Leila Ettachfini, broadly.vice.com
“Just how many gnarly depictions of motherhood are necessary for anything to change? If our laws and policies reflected the challenges of parenthood, perhaps we wouldn’t feel such pangs upon seeing a counter soaked in breast milk.”— Jen Gann, thecut.com
“I'll tell you a secret. A lot of times, parents are not the best at seeing their children clearly.”— Celeste Ng, amazon.com
“My mom’s definitely my best friend. Everything about her just makes our personalities fit really well together.”— Prana Supreme Diggs, slate.com
“What I failed to mention is that I struggle with my role as a mother nearly every day. In between the moments of joy that I post, there’s an ugly side to this life that doesn’t get captured on my phone or shared on social media.”— Julie Trites, scarymommy.com
“Every mom is the most annoying human in the universe, but most of them, besides the super-abusive genuinely bad ones, are in your corner.”— Mary H.K. Choi, amazon.com
“In certain overachieving circles, breast-feeding is no longer a choice—it’s a no-exceptions requirement, the ultimate badge of responsible parenting. Yet the actual health benefits of breast-feeding are surprisingly thin, far thinner than most popular literature indicates.”— Hanna Rosin, theatlantic.com
“In reality, pregnancy medical care seemed to be one long list of rules.”— Emily Oster, theatlantic.com
“The debate about breast-feeding takes place without any reference to its actual context in women’s lives.”— Hanna Rosin, theatlantic.com
“Since I had my first child I’ve learned that worrying about what people consider 'selfish' in mothers is a huge waste of time.”— Claire Zulkey, mom.me
“For many of us, our journey into and through motherhood is full of heavy and layered emotional experiences. These experiences all have correlating physical and hormonal counterparts.”— Lisa Grace Byrne, saragottfriedmd.com
“If anybody is going to sit on Ryan Gosling's face it's going to be me.”— Marta Kauffman, Howard J. Morris, Grace Hanson, Jane Fonda, imdb.com
“This is not the energy I wanted to start my vision quest with.”— Marta Kauffman, Howard J. Morris, Frankie Bergstein, Lily Tomlin, imdb.com
“Have you ever wondered if Ben and Jerry make more than ice cream together?”— Marta Kauffman, Howard J. Morris, Frankie Bergstein, Lily Tomlin, imdb.com