| If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day - that's the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That's the only reason I'm OK right now. |
| A happy family is but an earlier heaven. |
| For the mother is, and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest, and most lasting teacher her children have. |
| Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. |
| There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby- chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person. |
| A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. |
| A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. |
| The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. |
| The term 'working mother' is redundant. |
| Mothering has left me with stretch marks. I have been stretched beyond what I could have imagined. |
