Thursday 13 for Mother’s Day – Quotes on Motherhood

1. “The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.”
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

2. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
Lin Yutang

3. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
Henry Ward Beecher

4 “Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood – finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”
Jodi Picoult

5. “We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.”
Sameerah Shareef

6. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”
Jill Churchill

7. “The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

8. “A mother’s heart is always with her children.”
Proverb

9. “It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
Erma Bombeck

10. “This was an initiation, through which I experienced a profound kinship with all women throughout history who had ever gone through this ordeal and transformation. There was nothing that distinguished me from any woman who had ever given birth to a baby.”
Jean Shinoda Bolen

11. “Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
Elizabeth Stone

12. “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
Sophia Loren

13. “A baby’s mother also needs a mother.”
Erica Jong

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Read my other Thursday Thirteens for this week

in Grandmother’s Patternbook – links to free knit and crochet patterns for him

in Grandmother’s Dollhouse – links to free patterns for mama dolls and stuffed animals

in Thrifty Creativity – how to make flowers – all sorts of flower craft ideas

and stop by my Mother’s Day pages for ideas on an old fashioned holiday for Mother!

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