Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.