Embracing Imperfection: A Collection of 90 Bad Mom Quotes
Welcome to our curated collection of Bad Mom Quotes!
Being a mom is really hard, and sometimes moms say things that can make their kids feel bad about themselves. Not all moms are either good or bad; everyone is different, with their own strengths and challenges.
Some moms may not know the best way to be a parent because they didn’t have good examples or enough help.
Others may have personal problems like feeling really stressed, dealing with mental health issues, or having a tough relationship.
Sometimes, being a mom is just overwhelming.
But it’s important to know that these things don’t make someone entirely good or bad. With help and support, moms can learn and grow to be better parents and have stronger, healthier relationships with their kids.
#1
“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.” – Nina Simone
#2
“Making time for yourself and prioritizing your needs doesn’t make you a bad mom. Happy mom, happy kids!” – Kirsten Hill
#3
“Being a bad mom doesn’t mean you don’t love your children – it just means you’re not perfect.”
#4
“Back then I thought Mother Nature split the good guys from the bad guys with a fat black line. But the thing is, in real life, they’re often the same guy.” – Kirsten Hubbard
#5
” So many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart and mind of your child you are super mom”
#6
“If you have to parent your mother and put up with her childish and selfish behaviors, it may be time to create more serious boundaries for your own self-protection.” – Barrie Davenport
#7
“It’s okay to be a bad mom sometimes – it’s being a perfect one that’s impossible.”
#8
“I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I’m just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I’m doing.” – Rachael Ray
#9
“My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.” – Mira Grant
#10
“Take a deep breath, it’s just a bad day not a bad life” – Paintedteacup
#11
“Bad moments don’t make bad moms.” – Lysa Terkeurst
#12
“Without communication, there is no relationship; without respect, there is no love; without trust, there is no reason to continue.”
#13
“Bad moms remind their children that it’s okay to make mistakes and learn from them.”
#14
“I work too hard; I’d be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can’t even keep a plant!” – Maria Ressa
#15
“The quickest way for a mother to get her children’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
#16
“Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry ensures that moms and dads feel inadequate at every turn.” – Jessica Valenti
#17
“Inhale. Exhale. Everything is going to be okay. Actually, it’s going to turn out better than okay, you’ll see” – Notsalmon.com
#18
“Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.” – Jada Pinkett Smith
#19
“A toxic mother talks but never listens, and she gives advice but never takes any.”
– Sherrie Campbell
#20
“Being a bad mom means being honest about your imperfections and working towards being better.”
#21
“And that’s the insult of it — how always, it comes back to a woman being a ‘good’ mother in the world’s eyes or a ‘bad’ mother, how everything in a woman’s life is funneled through her body between her legs.” – Joyce Carol Oates
#22
“Good mother knows her children, knows everything about them, the good and the bad. A great mother loves them regardless” – Melody Anne
#23
“Some days are just hard, but there is hope in tomorrow”
#24
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” – Oprah Winfrey
#25
“A child should never feel as if they need to earn a mother’s love.” – Sherrie Campbell
#26
“A bad mom isn’t someone who makes mistakes, it’s someone who doesn’t learn from them.”
#27
“You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom. To care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.” – Naya Rivera
#28
“You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can’t see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that’s me.” – Vivien Leigh
#29
“I am human and yeah I have really bad days” – Charlize Theron
#30
“I’m not a good mom; I’m not a bad mom. I’m the mom I am, and I try very hard, and when I fail, that’s okay.” – Kristen Bell
#31
“One day, you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through, and it will be someone else’s survival guide.” – Brené Brown
#32
“Bad moms make mistakes, but they always apologize and make things right.”
#33
“I don’t beat myself up anymore about going to work. It doesn’t mean I’m being a bad mother just because I want to go and do my job sometimes.” – Kate Winslet
#35
“No one warns you that having kids is like reliving your own childhood traumas but in the third person.”
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#36
“The bad ones want you to work around them and their time and the decent ones want too much time. I just don’t have it. I am in grind mode. I do not have time to be a mother, a student, a home health care worker and a girlfriend to someone. Now a fuck partner, yea I could get with that.” – M.J. Sparks
#37
“Life is tough darling, and so are you”
#38
“You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom. To care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.” – Naya Rivera
#39
“You don’t have to repeat the trauma of your childhood. Use the pain your mother inflicted on you to motivate you to find a better way to raise your own children.” – Barrie Davenport
#40
“I hope my work ethic and positive outlook can be a testimony to other working mothers who may doubt their ability to be a career woman and a great mom. You can accomplish both.” – Gwen Darby
#41
“Every single second of every single day… I don’t know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day, I’m always plagued with, ’Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?’” – Sandra Bullock
#42
“Good parenting gives headaches, but bad parenting gives heartaches.” – Shiv Khera
#43
“The best moms are the ones who never give up, even when they feel like they’re failing.“
#44
“We all have bad days, but one thing is true; no cloud is so dark that the sun can’t shine through” – Miranda Kerr
#45
“Toxic mothers are more dangerous than absent fathers due to their contagious toxic energy which poisons your soul.” – Trialsandtest
#46
“Now, every time I witness a strong person, I want to know: What dark did you conquer in your story? Mountains do not rise without earthquakes.” – Katherine MacKenett
#47
“Stay-at-home moms feel guilty because they’re not doing enough… Working moms feel guilty because they’re not doing enough… Let go of the guilt. You are enough.” – Amy
#48
“There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.“
#49
“Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” -Russell Baker
#50
“Don’t let a bad moment ruin your day. Think of it as a bad minute, not a bad day and you’ll be okay. I promise.” – Curianoquotes
#51
“Take a deep breath, it’s just a bad day, not a bad life.” – Paintedteacup
#52
“Our mothers tell us that there are no monsters under our beds, or hidden inside our closets, but they don’t warn us that sometimes monsters come dressed as people that claim to love you more than the sun loves the moon.” – Nikita Gill
#53
“One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are bad mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.” – Ayelet Waldman
#54
“It’s interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it’s like well, just like everybody else. It proves it’s a bad question.” – Amy Poehler
#55
“Good moms have sticky floors, messy kitchens, laundry piles, and happy kids.“
#56
“A child’s shoulders were not built to bear the weight of their parent’s choices.” – Toby Mac
#57
“So far you’ve survived 100% of your worst days. You’re doing great” – LiveLifeHappy
#58
“Motherhood is messy. And challenging. And crazy. And sleepless. And giving. And still unbelievably beautiful.” – Rachel Martin
#59
“Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry ensures that moms and dads feel inadequate at every turn.” – Jessica Valenti
#60
“Parenthood: If I can survive this, I can do anything.”
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#61
“I still have my bad days when I think I’m not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, ‘listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.” – Bonnie Hunt
#62
“To your child, you are a superhero, even on your worst days.” –
#63
“Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being.” – Kittie Frantz
#64
” Bad moments don’t make bad mamas” – Lysa Terkeurst
#65
“The guilt of feeling like you’re a bad mom means you’re a good mom.”
#66
“Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.” – Sheryl Sandberg
#67
“Having a child is like having a broke best friend.”
#68
“Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.” – Henrik Ibsen
#69
“There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart and mind of your child you are super mom.”
#70
“There’s a reason why people who’ve had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.” – Chris Martin
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#71
“There is no such thing as a perfect parent, so just be real one” – Sue Atkins
#72
“You can be a mess and still be a good mother. We are allowed to be both.” – Katie Bighamsmith
#73
“Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other – on the contrary, they breed and reinforce each other.” – Haim G. Ginott
#74
“A mother has the uncanny ability to read between the lines and know what her child is feeling but cannot express.“
#75
“Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.” -Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#76
“Don’t compare yourself to other mothers. We are all losing our shit. Some just hide it better than others.” – Mumsgrapevine
#77
“Every mother I’ve ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.” – Jennifer Weiner
#78
“The toxic parent sees the child as a threat to their own ego and having the child overshadow the parent is not an option in their mind.” – Shannon Thomas
#79
“I didn’t grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.” – Charlize Theron
#80
“Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you’ve gained from having one.“
#81
“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.” – Lois McMaster Bujold
#82
.“It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.” – Anne Lamott
#83
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
#84
“You’re not a bad mother. I know bad mothers. I came out of one.” – Max Black
#85
“Parenting is mostly just informing kids how many more minutes they have of something.”
#86
“If you are with your kid and you are present, and you are there, and you’re engaged, and you care, then you’re a great mom.” – Mila Kunis
#87
“If you see my kids locked outside today, mind your own business. We’re having a fire drill.”
#88
“Mothers are like buttons. They hold everything together.“
#89
To the mama who hasn’t felt like herself lately, I know how difficult it is when you catch yourself not being you. Be patient, your sparkle will return again, and you will shine again.”
#90
“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.“
In closing, it’s important to remember that motherhood is a journey filled with both triumphs and challenges. While the term “bad mom” may be thrown around, the reality is that every mother is doing her best in the unique circumstances she faces.
Instead of dwelling on negativity, let’s celebrate the strength and resilience that mothers exhibit daily. In the face of adversity, they find inspiration and motivation to keep going.
So, here’s to all the moms out there – imperfectly perfect, navigating the beautiful chaos of motherhood, and finding inspiration in their own unique ways.
After all, it’s not about being a perfect mom; it’s about being a perfectly real one.
