Detective Quote by Vannessagrace

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

— Milton Sapirstein

“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

“Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother”

— Lin Yutang

“Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath genius. Female…

— Sophia McDougall

“To be a good mother, a woman is supposed to devote herself entirely to her children (and often a dependent and childlike husband) and…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“When one knows that he is his mother's child, and proceeds to guard (the qualities of) the mother that belong to him, to the…

— Laozi

“She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again…

— Rhian J. Martin

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter’s intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able…

— Susan Shapiro Barash

“Being a mother was the best of all human experiences, and also the most excruciating.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses…

— Arthur Conan Doyle