I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

Educate a man and you educate an individual-educate a woman and you educate a family.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Richer than I you can never be- I had a mother who read to me.

The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.

God could not be everywhere, so therefore he made mothers.

Motherhood is a partnership with God.

Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write though everything I write is a poem to my mother ...

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.