Birth Quote by Marion Zimmer Bradley

She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby's neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead,…

— Shannon Hale

She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance…

— Joseph Campbell

“Her earliest memory was of wings. Luminous red and blue, yellow and green and orange; a black so rich it appeared liquid, edible. They…

— Elizabeth Hand

But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of…

— Bible

“It was only after her death that I realized who she was: the apparently magical force at the center of our family who'd kept…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Time had ceased to feel linear. She looked up through the crisscrossing branches, thick with buds, into the night sky. The stars tugged at…

— Charles de Lint

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for…

— Richard Byrd

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

— Ralph Nader

“Within those last moments of torment she allowed the shadows to lead her to a place of light and comfort , to a peace…

— Patricia Gibney

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

“Kate stood by that low bed, looking down earnestly on its occupant—that occupant that was now a person, and soon would be—O, fearful metamorphosis!—but…

— Rhoda Broughton

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

— Sarah Addison Allen