All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy.
No man does.
That’s his.
That is their tragedy.
No man does.
That’s his.
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.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
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