One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
Copy Quote View & ShareJust as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Copy Quote View & ShareClearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
Copy Quote View & ShareMorality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Copy Quote View & ShareMothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
Copy Quote View & ShareThroughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
Copy Quote View & ShareMotherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.
Copy Quote View & ShareMothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
Copy Quote View & ShareTake motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
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