I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall…

“And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual.”

— Carrie Fisher

I love everything about a woman and since my mother is a woman, women you are the best.

— Jewels

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

— Anonymous

That 'woman becomes a mother' still makes a headline in 2015 reminds women that, for all their personal and collective achievements, society is still…

— Dawn Foster

Any woman can be a mother but it takes someone special to be called Mom.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“I’m an old woman, your mother’s an old woman, so I’ll be an old woman, and I’ll do what I please.”

— Christina Stead

“But this woman was all mother. A stern one, perhaps, and autocratic at times, and somewhat hard--but after all and in spite of all,…

— Nancy Byrd Turner

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than…

— Roseanne Barr

“She’s not a demon, she’s a woman,” my mother said sadly. “In this case, that’s worse.”

— Alice Hoffman

“When you're a black woman", her mother said, "ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall,…

— Dan Brown

“In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother. ”

— Santosh Kalwar

If you are confiding in someone, it needs to be the woman in your life. If that woman is your mother, you may as…

— Katie Hopkins

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

— Jim Fergus

Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

— Koren Zailckas

As a mother, you're only allowed to talk about the 'good' moments - not the ones when you've had enough and want to be…

— Leila Slimani