Here are 10 quotes about motherhood:

1. “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.” – Sophia Loren

2. “…my job is to give them the space to explore and develop into the people they want to be. My hope is that, sometimes as parents, we do for our kids what we can’t find to do for ourselves.” – Michelle Obama

3. “I don’t go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.” – Princess Diana of Wales

4. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm

5. “Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” – Maria Shriver

6. “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.” – Jessica Lange

7. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling

8. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie

9. “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

10. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill