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“Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“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.”

“All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness.”

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Author:Nelly Mazloum

“My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.”

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Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“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.”

Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography

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

“[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.”

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Author:Gilda Radner

“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.”

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Author:Kate Winslet

“Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.”

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Author:Olivia Wilde

“I remember being seven and asking my mom if I was as pretty as Monique [my best friend in grade school]. And with all the love in the world, my mom looked at me and said, 'Oh, honey, you're so funny.' So, she doesn't lie to me...she answers the question by not answering and instead tells me what she thinks is my greatest strength.”

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Author:Jennifer Aniston

“[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.”

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Author:Nicole Polizzi

“You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.”

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Author:Keri Russell

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

Source: Other Women

“Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”

“That best academy, a mother's knee.”

“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.”

Author:Rajneesh

“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 yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.”

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Author:George Eliot

“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.”

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Author:Agatha Christie

“I really learned it all from mothers.”

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Author:Benjamin Spock

“Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.”

“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.”

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Author:J. Reuben Clark

“It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.”

“Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.”

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Author:Rebecca West

“If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.”

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Author:Washington Irving

“Mother's love grows by giving.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb

Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb

“Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.”

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Author:David O. McKay

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.”

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”

“I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.”

“I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.”

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Author:Natasha Gregson Wagner

“My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods - except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.”

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Author:Jessica Biel

“I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.”

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Author:Zoe Saldana

“My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?”

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Author:Kelly Clarkson

“I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force as a producer. She paved the way for women to produce and star in their own films, and to balance that with being the matriarch of our family is really inspiring.”

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Author:Kate Hudson

“My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'”

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Author:Camilla Belle

“You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.'”

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Author:Cindy Crawford

“Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!”

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Author:Jessica Simpson

“Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name - total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.”

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Author:Gwen Stefani

“She'll really tell me [what she thinks]. Like today I'm wearing brown suede pants, and she said, 'I don't like your pants.' But then she'll say, `You've got to wear these shoes.' Or 'That's so pretty, Mom. Wear that.' She's got a great eye.”

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Author:Katie Holmes

“[My boys] bloody well will work. Same as myself, same as David. They're not going to be the kinds of kids that just hang about. I want them to be able to fulfill their passions, but I think it's important that the children grow up and have respect for themselves.”

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Author:Victoria Beckham

“James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, `Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.'”

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Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it.”

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Author:Jessica Alba

“It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son was screaming with a terrible stomachache. I was like, 'I have to get out of here!' but we had to finish. My friend Jenno, a mother of three who was producing, was great, reminding me that nine times out of 10, they just have gas.”

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Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

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