As a mother of four, I feel like I've naturally learned…

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

— Nelson Mandela

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

— John Dryden

A beautiful women, a great friend and a wonderful mother. You are all this to me and much more¦ I feel so lucky and…

— Mumbaibizarre

I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this.

— Anne Sexton

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

— Amy Tan

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

— Alice Walker

“Babies of around one year old are often active by day and wake frequently at night, for no obvious reason. Then a mother can…

— Naomi Stadlen

Dad has cancer yet again. I am the one who has to stay strong for him, for my mother, for everyone. But once in…

— Tiana Webb

“Francesca couldn’t say anything, because that would just make her mother feel even worse, and so instead they stood there as they always did,…

— Julia Quinn

“My mother was from here. I can feel her in the walls, in the air. I can feel her settled inside me, never to…

— Veronica Roth

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

— Patricia Hill Collins

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.

— Sarah Polley

“Somehow the idea of dictating things, Tilo said, seemed to make her mother feel that she was still the captain of the ship, still…

— Arundhati Roy

When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're…

— Haskell Wexler

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

— Emily Mortimer