No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. – Peter De Vries

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. – Margaret Culkin Banning