Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature there's something wrong with you.