The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

Benjamin Spock

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Brooke Burke

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

Buddy Hackett

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.

Carrie Underwood

The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kid didn't finish.

Donna Ball

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you.

Dorothy Parker

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Ed Asner

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Elissa Schappell

You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

Elizabeth Noble

the big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.

Emily Watts

Burnt toast is actually fairly symbolic of Motherhood. If you are the one who burned the toast, you scrape if off and eat it yourself. If they burned it, you eat it because the burned it specially for you.

Erma Bombeck

When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, “What light,” and two more to say, “I didn't turn it on.”

Emma Bonino

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

Florence Henderson

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a 90's mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

J.D. Salinger

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Jennifer Garner

You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.

Jerry Doyle

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

Jerry Pinto

Marriage is all right. At least the person you’re having a go at is an adult. But motherhood… You’re given something totally dependent, totally in love with you and it doesn’t seem to come with a manual.

Jessica Chastain

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

Jerry Seinfeld

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

Joan Bauer

...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

Jodi Picoult

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Julia Roberts

Usually, the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.

Kate Atkinson

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

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Katherine Heigl

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

Lane Olinghouse

The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

Leslye Walton

Because I'm your mother, that's why.

Mark Twain

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she

enjoyed it.

Martha Quinn

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

Michael Crummey

From what I have seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.

Michael Ealy

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'

Michelle Pfeiffer

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

Why not share this as a heartwarming gift?

Mindy Kaling

Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life.

Natalie Portman

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Neal Shusterman

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

Nicole Scherzinger

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

Nia Vardalos

Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.

The best thing about being a mom is that you can guilt trip your kids because you gave birth to them. It’s the gift that keeps on giving

Nora Ephron

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Norah Jones

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

Olivia Wilde

“If I wasn't at work, I just wanted to stay home and party with my little man — and by 'party' I mean, of course, endless rounds of 'Itsy Bitsy Spider.’”

Peter Brown

“But I do not know how to act like a mother.” “Oh, it’s nothing, you just have to provide the gosling with food and water and shelter, make him feel loved but don’t pamper him too much, keep him away from danger, and make sure he learns to walk and talk and swim and fly and get along with others and look after himself. And that’s really all there is to motherhood!”

Peter De Vries

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Phyllis Diller

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.

Priscille Sibley

Mothers always worry. There’s no off switch.

R.J. Palacio

My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.

Rachel Dratch

Parenting Tip: Maybe don't leave Hungry Hungry Hippos on the floor of a dark room.

Rachel Yoder

In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child.

Rainbow Rowell

The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.”

Raquel Cepeda

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

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Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and show me how to be the mother and father I never had. I’ll make a mess of things sometimes, and I’m sorry in advance, but I’ll try. My word is bond.

Rebecca Caprara

My two-year-old referred to her coat pockets as "snack holes," and this is what I shall forever call them.

Rebecca Solnit

When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all of these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to speak and given a thousand other things, over and over again, hourly, daily, for years.

Rebecca Walker

Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

Rebecca Woolf

Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done?

Reese Witherspoon

I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.

Richelle Mead

Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.

Robert A. Heinlein

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Roxanne Henke

Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways.

Ruby Wax

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

S.K. Tremayne

Having a kid is like an industrial revolution of the emotions. Suddenly you can mass produce worry, and guilt.

Sam Levenson

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

Sandra Steingraber

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

Selma Blair

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

Sharon Creech

“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.

Shin Kyung-Sook

You never wondered, Did Mom like being in the kitchen?

Shirley Jackson

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'

Susan Savannah

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, 'keep away from children.

The Golden Girls

It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.

Tim Allen

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

Unknown

Patience: What you have when there are too many witnesses.

Unknown

Some days I amaze myself. Other days I put laundry in the oven.

Unknown

Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.

Unknown

Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.

Vanessa Williams

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

Wendy Liebman

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

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