“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
“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“My mom is probably my biggest hero. My grandmother. My grandfather, who passed. I had a roommate who passed who was one of my heroes. If I can choose another word, I call them my angels—people who really loved you for you and looked out for you and, when you didn’t realize it, were praying for you.”— Ray Lewis, sportingnews.com
“Letting moms enjoy cannabis — ideally once they've stopped breastfeeding — seems like a no-brainer. And yet it's still frowned upon thanks to some bogus war on drugs prohibition-style brainwashing.”— Kristi Pahr, theweek.com
“Mother prepared me to live in the world, but she didn't try to make me into a social being just so I could hang out with other teenagers at the lake, or have pajama parties with other girls. Her eyes were on a bigger prize - giving me the skills and nurturing the talents that would allow me to gradu…”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“How incredible...the affection of a mother is for the infant whom she warms in her bosom and nurses and watches over with care, so that she passes sleepless nights, worries continually, and forgets herself!”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“As any mother will attest, the instinct to look after our children stays with us long after they need our attention.”— Nancy Pelosi, amazon.com
“While growing up in a political family was obviously helpful, the organizational skills I developed as a mom were equally important.”— Nancy Pelosi, amazon.com
“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Mothers don't realize, but when they put their sons and boys (even when they have grown into men) ahead of their daughters, they are leaving the most painful heartbreaking legacy: that we are inferior. That we do not deserve love as easily, and must work for it with all our blood and sweat, tears an…”— Monique Wilson, facebook.com
“Juno: I'm not ready to be a mom. Mac: Damn skippy you're not! You don't even remember to give Liberty Bell her breathing meds. Juno: God, that was *one* time! And she did not die, if you recall.”— Ellen Page, J.K Simmons, Juno, Mac, amazon.com
“I'm just saying that this is—this is something that's never gonna happen. You know—your shirt is stupid. Grow up. If I have to wait for you to become Kurt Cobain, I'm never gonna be a mother.”— Jennifer Garner, Vanessa, amazon.com
“I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this—caring for this boy—as opposed to some other way? I would always be earthbound; he hadn’t robbed me of my ability to fly or to live foreve…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Is being a father more important to Keith Richards than being in the Rolling Stones? I have no idea; I didn’t even know he had children until three months ago.”— Laura June, nymag.com
“I think if I’m 40 and I don’t have any kids and I’m not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary – like Jesus is my baby.”— Kim Kardashian, news.com.au
“Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path... that those with children are more important than those without.”— Anne Lamott, salon.com
“We talk about ‘loving one’s child’ as if a child were a mystical unicorn. Ninety-eight percent of American parents secretly feel that if you have not had and raised a child, your capacity for love is somehow diminished. Ninety-eight percent of American parents secretly believe that non-parents canno…”— Anne Lamott, salon.com
“Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother’s Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.”— Anne Lamott, salon.com