We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.
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.
Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
We have to be women we want our daughters to be.
A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.
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