Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

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

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

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 a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.