It’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

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

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet. And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it’s nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.