The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Sweater n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

The production of children the nurture of those born and the daily life of men of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say but in the lives they lead.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place side by side with men in the rooms where the fates of peoples where their children's and grandchildren's fates are decided.