“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” ― Cardinal Mermillod
“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.” ― Rose Kennedy
“Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother.”― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
“There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.” ― Roseanne Barr
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” ― Sophia Loren
“My great hope is that at this marvelous moment for women, they should remember that one of the gifts they have is that they remained so very close to the personal life, and that the qualities that were discovered in the personal life, the value of human life, the value of tenderness, the attentiveness to others’ moods, the need for compassion and pity and understanding, the things that women practice every day in their daily lives, in their small kingdoms, are enormously important.” ― Anais Nin, A Woman Speaks
“A Mother is a Person”
a mother is a person
who gives birth
cleans up messes
kisses dirty faces
makes thousands of peanut butter sandwiches
and says no more often than yes
a mother is a person
who acts as chauffeur
personal secretary
and general contractor
housebreaks and feeds the dog
hunts for numerous articles
and hurts when her child is hurt
a mother is a person
who needs to remember
she is a person
― Mary Eleanore Rice, Images: Women in Transition
“The mother is the most precious of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.” ― Ellen Key
“You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard, but it’s the only way.” ― Barbara Bush
“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.” ― Marilyn French
“[W]omen have solved the problems of human life from embryo to birth and from birth to maturity. Women are the survival kit of the human race.” ― Councillor Mandizvidza of Mucheke Township, Zimbabwe
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