You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

A father may turn his back on his child brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies husbands may desert their wives wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired it need not be deserved.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

I remember a specific moment watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line and her saying to me 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.