When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.
Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.
To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
I think that when moms just give themselves up, the kids know. They feel guilty; they resent their mother for making them feel guilty, and then they grow up and do the same thing. Whereas my mother showed me that it's okay to focus on yourself.
I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.