My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.
There is nothing more precious than laughter
God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.
Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.
Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together
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