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.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

I told my mother I was going to have a natural childbirth. She said to me, 'Linda, you've been taking drugs all your life. Why stop now?'

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.

If you begin to think you're changing the culture of the world, just ask your mom what she thinks you do for a living.

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant, but she will swallow anything.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.