A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac
A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.
Emma Bonino
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
Sophocles
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
Anita Baker
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia
Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.
Ashley Scott
Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole Appleton
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker
