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“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

“My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.”

“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”

“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”

“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.”

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”