Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.
I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.