God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.
It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.
We have to be women we want our daughters to be.
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother."
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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.
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.
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.
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