A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Read Summary
A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth. Read Summary
I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes. Read Summary
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. Read Summary
My mother had morning sickness after I was born. Read Summary
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. Read Summary
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.' Read Summary
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. Read Summary
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. Read Summary
I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. Read Summary
I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that. Read Summary
When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list. Read Summary
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. Read Summary
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research. Read Summary
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. Read Summary
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol. Read Summary
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. Read Summary
My mommy raised me so well. Read Summary
My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me. Read Summary
One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime. Read Summary