Being a mother is hard and it was not a subject I ever studied.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

I am a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It is not enough, but it helps.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you are working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you are with your children, you are thinking about working.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I do not need another plaque.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I have always looked up to.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Completeness? Happiness? These words do not come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

What do girls do who have not any mothers to help them through their troubles?

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

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She did not want me to conform.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.