Famous Single Mom Quotes and Sayings

“The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.” – Daniel Pearce

“You do the best you can. Some days you feel really good about yourself and some days you don’t.”- Katie Holmes

“My family is blended and diverse, nutty, and loving and understanding. That’s a family.”- Sandra Bullock

“The loves of my life are my children and my mother. I don’t feel as if I need a man.”- Diane Keaton

“The best gift a parent can give children is time … Single moms need to know it’s okay to have a little ‘me’ time.”- Denise Richards

“You make it work. You keep getting out of bed. Sometimes it’s just because you know there’s a cup of coffee downstairs.”- Michelle Williams

“I know how to do anything, I’m a mom.”- Rosanne Barr

“It takes one rad mama to be a father too.”- Anonymous

9“Motherhood matters. More than having the perfect house, the perfect body, the perfect planning schedule, the perfect kids, the perfect anything. You are a game-changer. A life changer. You are their mother.”- Anonymous

“For me, motherhood is learning about the strengths I didn’t know I had, and dealing with the fears I didn’t know existed.”- Halle Berry

“Better a loving single-parent family than a ‘conventional’ family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.” – Moby

“Just because I am a single mother doesn’t mean I cannot be a success.” – Yvonne Kaloki

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think what you do matters very much.” – Jackie Kennedy

“I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much.” – Molly Sims

“I don’t think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.” – Mary Louise Parker

“I want to show the example that you can be a single mother and work and handle a lot of other things at the same time.” – Christina Milian

“As a single mom, I’m juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.” – Edie Falco

“There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, ears, and mind of your child, you are a SUPER MOM.” – Stephanie Precourt

“Some days she has no idea how she’ll do it. But every single day. It still gets done.” – Anonymous

“Being a working mother and a working single parent instills in you a sense of determination.” – Felicity Jones

“I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.” – Linda Lael Miller

“The strength of my mother is something I didn’t pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, ‘I’m getting my kids out of here. I’m creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.” – Jacqueline Woodson

“Being a single mum is twice the work, twice the stress and twice the tears but also twice the hugs, twice the love and twice the pride.” – Anonymous

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before.” – Rajneesh

“At the end of the day, it’s the bond you share with your child that matters, and you mommy know just how to do that.” – Anonymous

“We are born of love; love is our mother.”- Rumi

“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”- Jodi Picoult

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”- William Makepeace Thackeray

“I can’t tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it solo” – Jennie Finch

“Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.”- Maxim Gorky

“Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it’s a blessing.”- Kelly Cutrone

“The emotions, responsibilities – and the pain – of motherhood are unique to each of us with children. Ask any woman, and she will have her own story to tell.”- Fiona Barton

“That’s what motherhood is: you’re working; you’re doing 25 different jobs, and you’re not getting paid.”- Melissa Peterman

“A single mother has a backbone made of steel and a heart full of gold.”- Anonymous

“I’m a hustler. I’m a single mom, so whatever I’ve gotta do, I gotta do.”- Sherri Shepherd

“The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.” – Karen Maezen Miller

“Not all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

“You can be a mess and still be a good mom. You are allowed to be both.”- Anonymous

“When you’re a single parent, you’re often lonely yet seldom alone. There is no backup… It is mothering without a net.”- Amy Dickinson

“You have to carry on as a mother, no matter what, and that’s what I’ve always done.”- Madonna

“Whenever you feel discouraged, just remember, you are the center of the universe to the tiny humans you made from scratch. You’re kind of a big deal.”- Anonymous

“A single mom tries when things are hard. She never gives up. She believes in her family, even when things are tough. She knows that above all things, a mother’s love is more than enough.”- Deniece Williams

“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”- Mitch Albom

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them”- Victor Hugo

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”- Cardinal Meymillod

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”- Princess Diana

“A child’s first teacher is its mother.”- Peng Liyuan

“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”- Ricki Lake

“It’s not single parenthood in and of itself. It’s more about how people parent.” – Sophie Zadeh

“Mothers – especially single mothers – are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation’s children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families’ well-being.” – Evan Bayh

“I didn’t plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.” – Tichina Arnold

“Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is till our kids. Any parent does whatever it takes for their kids and a single mother is no different.” – Paula Miranda

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.” – Garrison Keillor

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”- Barbara Kingsolver

“Motherhood changes everything.”- Adriana Trigiani

“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”- Billy Sunday

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”- Geroge Eliot

“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”- Honore de Balzac

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

“The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because stuff worked out. They got that way because stuff went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.”- Elizabeth Gilbert

“Being raised by a single mother, I learned to appreciate and value independent women.” – Kenny Conley

”Respect to all mums doing double duty because of men failing to do their part as dads.” – John Mark Green

”Being a single parent is not a life full of struggles, but a journey for the strong.” – Meg Lowrey

“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

“As a single mum you’ll discover inner strengths and capabilities you never knew you had.” – Emma-Louise Smith

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”- Henry Ward Beecher

“You don’t take a class; you’re thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.”- Jennie Finch

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”- Meryl Streep

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”- Sophocles

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

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill

“Even though it leaves me sleep-deprived, I love every bit of motherhood.”- Neha Dhupia

“Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crises. I’ve become a juggler, I suppose. It’s all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.”- Jane Seymour

“Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.”- Nita Ambani

“One thing I know for sure – this motherhood thing is not for sissies.”- Jennifer Nettles

“Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful. Sometimes, you’re really in the trenches!”- Constance Marie

“We may not want to say it out loud, but motherhood is hard.”- Stephanie Ruhle

“Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.”- Kim Brooks

“Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.”- Gloria Estefan

“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.”- Nia Vardalos

“Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.” – Larry Barretto

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.” – James Joyce

“Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.” – PJ O’Rourke

“I think birth and motherhood are not things that you’re trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.”- Julie Andrews

“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.”- Rebecca West

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“I would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatization that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“I think it’s really important for every mother to find their own way.” – Solange Knowles

“Gone are the days when you would sit and wait for your knight in shining armor. Be brave, be independent and believe that you can do it, and you can do a better job.”- Anonymous

“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”- Isadora Duncan

“Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.”- Annie Lennox

“Motherhood has helped me to stop over analyzing things. It’s been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.”- Idina Menzel

“There’s no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It’s all that really matters.”- Courtney Cox

“Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I’ve really known for sure is something I wanted to do.”- Cynthia Nixon

“Motherhood is a beautiful, wonderful gift… except when it’s not.”- Rachel Hollis

“Motherhood informs my work 100 percent.”- Jessica Marais

“Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.”- Wangechi Mutu

“She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing single about a single mom.” – Mandy Hale

“I am a single mom and I’m the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that’s just the way it is. I don’t think my son even knows any different.” – Charisma Carpenter