Bears Quote by Sheri L. Dew

How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and…

— Anne Roiphe

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human bring to do the impossible.

— Anonymous

“It must be difficult to be a mother,” she continued thoughtfully. “To create and nurture and raise a tiny person, to invest all of…

— Eda J. Vor

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

— Sandra Scofield

She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly,…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing…

— Amy Tan

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to…

— Andrea Dworkin

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for…

— Katharine Graham

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us…

— Julian of Norwich

“All the ways in which women become mothers of some sort. Is motherhood inescapably entwined in female life, a story every woman ends up…

— Cherise Wolas

We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton