The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.
Trust grows when babies and mothers establish that they can find each other again after the inevitable moments of losing touch. It is not the goodness of the mother or the relationship per se that is the basis for trust; it is the ability of mother and baby together to repair the breaks in their relationship that builds a safe house for love.
The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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