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“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”

“I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.”

“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

“Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.”

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.”

“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”

“Most mothers kiss and scold together.”

“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

“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?”

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

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