Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

Jane Seymour

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

Allan Beck

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.

Margaret Sanger

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Anita Baker

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

There's a certain ferocity in motherhood.

Celeste Zappala

Gwyneth has a wonderful sense of style that has only gotten better with age and motherhood.

Karen Sanders

One benefit is to get to teen girls before the notion of motherhood comes into play.

Lindsey Miller

Kate has a lot of anxiety about not living up to the standard of motherhood in this town, in this context.

Jennifer Weiner

There are changes in the brain (during pregnancy and early motherhood) ? concrete, measurable changes, and later, the way we think and behave is changed.

Katherine Ellison

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

William Trevor

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

Victoria Billings

Women have an internal signal of pending motherhood - they are pregnant. Men do not.

Mark Erickson

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

Art Linkletter

[(PEOPLE) -- Inside the offices of the production company she created with her actor husband,] Everybody Loves Raymond ... Motherhood & Hollywood: How to Get a Job Like Mine.

Patricia Heaton

Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes conditions, which is just the sort of learning that drives change in the brain.

Katherine Ellison

This race was just feeling my way through. I'm 39, but I'm not over the hill yet. The one title I didn't have was motherhood. Everything I've ever wanted, I have. ... I'm blessed to have a healthy baby.

Gail Devers