I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to be read in, or to be read to. My mother read to me.

The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.

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

We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

In a child's lunch box, a mother's thoughts.

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

There is no such thing as a non-working mother.

Certainly there she was, in the very centre of that great Cathedral space which was childhood; there she was from the very first.

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

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

Motherhood is a partnership with God.

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

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.

... no expert is in a position to do for a child what a mother can do.

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

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

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