Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial…

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.…

— Ben Okri

There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get to live…

— LeToya Luckett

“...a woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

— Virginia Woolf

Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and…

— Lenny Kravitz

“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead…

— Colum McCann

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No…

— Russell Baker

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies…

— Joan Didion

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and…

— Alicia Ostriker

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”

— Amy Tan

I agree that mommy wars are not good for any mothers: that such wars are time and effort wasted.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,…

— Shannon L. Alder

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

— Rita Rudner

The world needs our mothers.

— Liya Kebede

“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's…

— Ruth Ozeki

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries…

— Alexa Von Tobel