Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Parenthood. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Parenthood Quotes And Sayings by 94 Authors including Sandra Tsing Loh,Joyce Carol Oates,Margaret Drabble,Thomas Wentworth Higginson,Germaine Greer for you to enjoy and share.

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Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.
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The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
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The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.
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It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.
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What instruction the baby brings to the mother!
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Parenthood is nothing but doubts.
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The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.
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Fatherhood is wonderful.
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Motherhood is a cliffhanger.
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Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions
the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.
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Motherhood:
The most exhausting, emotional, rewarding
and life-enhancing journey a woman can take.
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MOTHERS
Measuring
Out
Their
Highest
Efforts
Rearing
Souls
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Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
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Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
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The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
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Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.
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In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.
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Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.
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At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.
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When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.
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Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women's capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society - to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.
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Parenthood seems really rewarding ... like martyrdom, but without the glamour.
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...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.
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Babies welcomed at conception, prepared for during pregnancy, and gently birthed into loving hands begin life positively. They look out at the world with immense interest and curiosity, act as if they feel safe, and make a solid connection with their parents
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Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.
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Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
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Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
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Of children as of procreation
the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
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Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.
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Motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.
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Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else's story.
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Having anticipated the onward march of our selfish genes, many of us are unprepared for children who present unfamiliar needs. Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity.
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Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
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Today we tell girls to grow up to be or do whatever they want. But the cultural pressure to become a mother remains very strong; rare is she who doesn't at least occasionally succumb to the nagging fear that if she remains childless, she'll live to regret it.
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A mother to a reckless, feckless, one-off of a child - but what child isn't?
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Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men.
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In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.
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'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
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The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.
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I love fatherhood.
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A woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby
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I, woman, give birth: and this time to myself.
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Without them, one's status as an adult is never secure; a childless adult creates adulthood for himself , and as exhilarating as it often is, it is also a state of perpetual insecurity
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Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.
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Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.
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I wonder if it's suffering."
"What, our generation?"
"The baby!
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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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This fathering is a man's second chance at living.
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Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.
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In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.
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What least makes a mother is biology.
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Since human fatherhood, as a reflection of the Fatherhood of God, was designed to be the pillar of the family, the disappearance of esteem for fatherhood has led to the collapse of that pillar and to the disintegration of the family.
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetric-ally once, and by car forever after.
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Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
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A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child
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Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world,
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The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
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How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
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Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?
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The most fundamental flaw in society is fatherlessness.
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To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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A pregnant woman is a frightful object. A new-born child is loathsome. A deathbed rarely makes so horrible an impression as childbirth, that terrible symphony of screams and filth and blood.
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I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.
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The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
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Motherhood is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life.
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Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.
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Childbirth has always been a dangerous undertaking, but at least I've managed to eliminate the most painful part of the process.
What's that? Sex?
Love.
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Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.
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What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?
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While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they're pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity's baseline social contract.
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.
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There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.
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Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.
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Kids are anchors of mothers' life
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One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western civilization is to concentrate upon and increase the solidarity of the family. This solidarity begins with a child at the mother's breast.
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Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
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I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.
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When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
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Kids dealing with these really adult-problems. I'm making big, generalized statements but our culture doesn't acknowledge these things. Sex does lead to pregnancy! Kids don't always have an outlet or someone they can talk to about it.
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When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.
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To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
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I don't think anyone masters parenthood.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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A mother's love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends.
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Life - and that of her child.
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Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the beginning of life; the beginning of mothering, and of fathering. We all deserve a good beginning.
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Motherhood isn't soft and cozy and sweet; it's selfish ferocity, red in tooth and claw.
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In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.
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I think that the one thing about 'Parenthood' is that, while it's never been a huge out-of-the-box hit, it's always been solid. We've always kept our audience.
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In childbirth grief begins.
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As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.
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A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.
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A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.
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