| Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter. |
| The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds. |
| Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. |
| Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-the mother. |
| A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. |
| The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. |
| Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. |
| How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. |
| Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. |
| Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. |