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

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”

“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”

“A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.”

“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.”

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”

“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.”

“Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.”

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

“All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.”

“Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.”

“Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.”

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.”

“Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”