Quotes about Role of a mother (55 quotes)

You know it’s very important, the role of a mother… I don’t know, but it’s feminism to me to love your kids. Votes: 4

Carine Roitfeld

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician. Votes: 2

Emma Bonino

Of all the roles I’ve played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother. Votes: 2

Annette Funicello

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played. Votes: 2

Isabella Rossellini

Like most of us, I’m used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit ‘multiple-personality’. Votes: 2

Sophie Kinsella

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don’t define you as a human being. Votes: 2

Amy Bloom

I took the role of Rochelle in ‘Everybody Hates Chris,’ and that was it. I was going to play mother roles all the time. Once you do one mother role, it’s always a trickle down effect. Votes: 2

Tichina Arnold

Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called ‘Together For Days’ with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it. Votes: 2

Lois Chiles

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. Votes: 2

Jessica Valenti

My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I’m extremely proud of her. Votes: 2

Ron Livingston

Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn’t be more interesting – playing mothers, divorcees. I think it’s going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets. Votes: 2

Naomi Watts

Now I’m a wife and a mother of two. It’s a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that’s what it’s like to be together for so long and go through what we’ve been through. I can’t really have that relationship with them anymore. Votes: 2

Gwen Stefani

I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother’s generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion. Votes: 2

Teresa Heinz

The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn’t have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I’m not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way. Votes: 2

Alexis Wright

My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be… good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody – right where you are, God is. Votes: 2

Iyanla Vanzant

I’ve been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I’ve tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family. Votes: 2

Margaret Hamburg

My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He’s wearing glasses, he’s in a wheelchair, he’s a computer genius. He’s very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I’d be taken seriously. Votes: 2

Michael Weatherly

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother. Votes: 2

Kathryn Stockett

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don’t have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we’re all really still sorting out. Votes: 2

Lisa Edelstein

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name. Votes: 2

Kandyse McClure

Not one day of my mother’s adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her. Votes: 1

Rosemary Mahoney

Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. Votes: 0

Bernard Bailyn

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. Votes: 0

Peter De Vries

My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything. Votes: 0

W. Edwards Deming

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York. Votes: 0

Kim Raver

I’m not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit. Votes: 0

Meghan O’Rourke

I’m sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. Votes: 0

Bong Joon-ho

I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model, Votes: 0

Tim McGraw

[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Obliging a lady with respect is to pay tribute to her womanhood in elevating society from her role as a daughter, sister, mother and wife. Votes: 0

Shah Asad Rizvi

A mother’s role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands. Votes: 0

Ezra Taft Benson

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am. Votes: 0

Rickie Lee Jones

Being a working mommy is something I’ve always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right. Votes: 0

Kerri Walsh

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. Votes: 5 William Makepeace Thackeray