To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“When the whole world made me think that, I can't do it, Thanks for making me, believe that, I can do it.” — Luffina Lourduraj Copy Share Image
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.” — Vimala McClure Copy Share Image
When we frame women's choices in terms of extreme work or extreme mothering, women think they have to define themselves in terms… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
“She has been putting qualities into David, altering him, turning him forever on a lathe since the day she first knew him,… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“florens would sigh then, her head on lina's shoulder and when sleep came the little girl's smiel lingered. mother hunger – to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain.… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to hide away and leave my friends to the corelings!” she shouted. “We’ll find a way to ward the… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
“Happy Mother's day … Its mothering Sunday in England and I just wanted to take a min to honor all the mothers… — Miss Gath Copy Share Image
I think it's a feminine energy, not necessarily men versus women, but a nurturing, mothering, loving energy. I think definitely. But I… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
“A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a mother, her… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“It also seems honorable that another woman would value motherhood over all my priorities. But I do not believe that I am… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience… — Mark Chironna Copy Share Image
“Certain vocations, e.g., raising children, offer a perfect setting for living a contemplative life. They provide a desert for reflection, a real… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.” — Attica Locke Copy Share Image
“All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.” — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
