The relationship between a mother and their child can be an amazing and meaningful one. It’s been stated the following “a child cannot have too many people who love them and want to help them succeed.” This is one of the many inspirational quotes on stepmoms to highlight the wonderful qualities that can be derived from families that are blended and the unique bonds formed between a stepmother and a child and the extra encouragement, values and influence that an experienced stepmom can have on children’s lives. Here are 60 stepmom quotes that are full of heart

60 Best Stepmom Quotes For A Happy Mothers Day

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” – Oprah Winfrey

“A stepmom is a special woman who loves and cares for children that are not her own, but as if they were.” – Unknown

“I use the word bonus mom because I feel like it’s a blessing in my life. I feel so lucky that I got to have an extra, wonderful little angel in my life.” – Gisele Bündchen

“It takes a lot of courage to love another child like your own; I’m glad you have done it so well.” – Unknown

“Being a stepmom is a relationship like no other. Even the seemingly impossible challenges and fights will bond you to your stepchild or stepchildren for a lifetime.” – Michelle Brown

“A stepmom is like an angel from above who comes into your life to give you strength, courage, and lots of love.” – Unknown

“Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart.” – C. Joybell C.

“There are no limits to what a stepmom can do for her blended family.” – Unknown

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” – Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit-Will Travel

“A stepmom is a woman who takes on the challenge of being both mother and friend to a child in need.” – Unknown

“Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.” – Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

“Stepmoms are special women who open their hearts and give love without any limits or boundaries.” – Unknown

“I did not give you the gift of life. Life gave me the gift of you.” – Unknown

“Step parents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a childs life experience.” – Azriel Johnson

“Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.” – Murasaki Shikibu

“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” – Leigh Anne Tuohy

“It takes a strong man to accept somebody else’s children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.” – Ray Johnson

“When it feels as if you can’t do right by the other parent, instead. You’ll never fail with best interest at heart.” – Jessica James

“Good stepparents do much of the parenting that birth parents do but without much credit. They comfort, advise, teach, support, encourage, and love their stepchildren. They make a valuable contribution in their lives.” – Kelly Eden

“I am a stepmother to the fullest extent.” – Megan Fox

“Becoming a blended family means mixing, mingling, scrambling, and sometimes muddling our way through delicate family issues, complicated relationships, and individual differences, hurts, and fears. But through it all, we are learning to love like a family.” – Tom Frydenger

“Stepmoms deserve the same respect a mother would receive. They pour all of their time, energy and love into a child they didn’t even create. Stepmoms don’t do it because they have to. They do it because they want to.” – Unknown

“Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, but still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute, you did not grow under my heart but in it.” – Fleur Conkling Heyliger

“You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn’t depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.” – Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“You know every story, every wound, every memory. Their whole life’s happiness is wrapped up in you… every single second. Don’t you get it? Look down the road to her wedding. I’m in a room alone with her, fixing her veil, fluffing her dress, telling her no woman has ever looked so beautiful. And my fear is she’ll be thinking, “I wish my mom was here.” – Jackie Harrison

“A good stepparent can literally turn the life of a child around.” – Unknown

“I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family.” – Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“I fell in love with you first,’ Cecily always said to Esther. ‘Your father was a bonus.” – Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

17. “My children don’t call me stepmom, they call me Momala. We’re a very modern family. Their mom is a close friend of mine.” – Kamala Harris

“There also seems to be a connection between his volume control and the gas pedal of the SUV. The louder he howls, the faster Stepmonster drives.” – Gordon Korman , The Unteachables

“Remember why you chose to come together in the first place-the love that you have for your partner. Your partner’s children are an extension of them, and this makes them just as important to your happiness.” – Beth Huber

“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.” – Sarah Dresden, Lock and Key

“Step-parenting is working at a late-night convenience store… all the responsibility and none of the authority.” – Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

“I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I’m very close to both stepparents and I consider them to be my parents too.” – Mark Ronson

“I might not have carried them in my belly for nine months, but I promise to carry them in my heart forever.” – Unknown

“A good stepmom is not made-she is built. She is built by the hardships of her role, the tears she cries in secret and by the lessons she learns through trial and error.” – Michelle Zunter

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.” – Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Half and full should be used in math, not in relationships. There are no half-mothers, only complete families.” – Unknown

“Sarah brushed my hair and tied it up in back with a rose velvet ribbon she had brought from Maine. She brushed hers long and free and tied it back, too, and we stood side by side looking into the mirror. I looked taller, like Sarah, and fair and thin. And with my hair pulled back I looked a little like her daughter. Sarah’s daughter.” – Patricia Maclachlan

“In today’s climate, listening is so compelling because it is so rare. Give the gift of listening to the kid in your life. Put down your phone and have a real conversation. Get to know him. Look him in the eyes.” – Sharilee Swaity, 16 Gifts From a Stepmom

“Behind many great children is a stepparent who stepped in, took responsibility and cared.” – Unknown

“Have you ever considered that the wedding that carries such positive memories for you may have had a very different meaning for your stepson or daughter? On your wedding day, he watched his father marry someone other than his mother, officially ending the family he once knew.” – Sharilee Swaity, 16 Gifts From a Stepmom

“Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it’s incredible and surprising.” – Nia Vardalos, Instant Mom

“Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.” – Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“A stepmother’s love is unique. She continues to love her bonus children selflessly despite knowing that she will never be the priority in their lives.” – Unknown

“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” – Leigh Anne Touhy

“A child cannot have too many people who love them and want to help them succeed.” – Unknown

“However motherhood comes to you, it’s a miracle.” – Valerie Harper

“You didn’t treat me like an extra child, you treated me like one more blessing.” – Unknown

“When it feels as if you can’t do right by the other parent, do right by your stepchild instead. You’ll never fail with [their] best interest at heart.” – Jessica James

“Stepparents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a child’s life experience.” – Azriel Johnson

“There’s no clear road map to being a stepmother.” – Laura Brimberry

“The only steps in this house are the stair steps and the only half in this house is the half-and-half creamer.” – Al Hodson

“Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love.” – Dave Willis

“Little souls find their way to you, whether they’re from your womb or someone else’s.” – Sheryl Crow

“They are not my stepchildren. They are my children who came into this world before I met them.” – Unknown

“From the moment I became a stepmother, my purpose has been to love and protect these children with everything I have.” – Unknown

“A stepparent is so much more than just a parent: they made the choice to love when they didn’t have to.” – Unknown

“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.” – T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” – Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Happiness [is] only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Conclusion

In the midst of Mother’s Day just around the time, there’s never a better time to recognize and celebrate the devoted stepmothers who add the most joy to the lives their stepchildren. While these wonderful women might not have been the birth mothers of their stepchildren or stepchildren but they cherish their children like they are their own blood and flesh. It doesn’t matter if you’re a mother who would lay everything down for the children of your partner or someone who is extremely blessed to experience the unconditional love of a second mom, take a look at these inspirational quotes about stepmoms to celebrate the bond that exists between stepmothers and their children.