Mothering Monday

Mother Quotes

'If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent'

Bette Davis

'There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother. But there's a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect'

Roseanne Barr

'My idea of Superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors'

Bette Midler

'There is no such thing as a non-working mother'

Hester Mundis

'A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie'

Tenneva Jordan

'Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease'

Lisa Alther

'Being a mother is a profession just like being a doctor or a lawyer, except that if you have several children, it's more like being an Indian chief'

Author unknown

'The joys of motherhood are never fully experienced until the children are in bed'

Author unknown

'When you're a mother, the odds of going into a store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one'

Erma Bombeck

and my own personal favourite:

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

Dorothy (The Golden Girls)