Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms and fills cities and churches and heaven itself.

Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

I was a bartender for a long time so I know how to make drinks but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did and why I get to produce more writing than she did and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

When you're a father in a marriage you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered and the smile that lights on the first born babe and assures it of a mother's love.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Love matches so called have illusion for their father and need for their mother.