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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

I think we are not yet well aware that, unfortunately, we have a short time to be moms. This is not to suggest that we should rush to have children or do it in a crazy way. I think that's the most important decision of a woman's life.

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

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.