I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
Motherhood is the strangest thing it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
A woman must combine the role of mother wife and politician.
Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
Of all the roles I've played none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
I am no mother and I won't be one.
My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
It's the moms of this nation - single married widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers we're the wives we're the grandmothers we're the big sisters we're the little sisters we're the daughters. You know it's true don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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.
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
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.
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.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are we must know our mothers names.
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.
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.
Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.