“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” Tenneva Jordan

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.” Mildred B. Vermont (1911 – 2010) was an American businesswoman and culinary author who co-founded the Vermont Country Store.

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” Jane Sellman is an adjunct instructor at University of Baltimore.

“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.” Author Unknown

“As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.” Rachel Cusk (1967 - ) is a Canadian-born novelist and writer.

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” Milton Berle (1908 – 2002) was an American comedian and actor.

“A mother is the only creature whose heart beats outside her own body.” Author unknown

“Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.” Barbara Walters (1929 - ) is an American broadcast journalist, author and television personality.

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” William Makepeace Thackeray (July 1811 – 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century most famous for his work VANITY FAIR.

“A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.” Robert Brault (1963 - ) is an American operatic tenor, author and internet blogger.

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.” Barbara Kingsolver (1955 - ) is an American novelist, essayist and poet.

“Mom went out, so me and Cindy and Bobby and Danny and Daddy are all home alone!”

“God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.” Jewish Proverb

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” Robert A. Heinlein (1907 – 1988) was an American science fiction writer.

“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.” L.R. Knost is an independent child development researcher, and a best-selling parenting and children's book author.

“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is...and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.” Donna Ball (1951 - ) is an American romance novelist.

“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.” Howard W. Hunter (1907 – 1995) was an American lawyer and the 14th president of the LDS church.

“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit how difficult mothering is quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.” Anna Quindlen (1953 - ) is an American author, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist.

“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is. A mother who doesn't fret over failings and slights, who realizes her worries and anxieties are just thoughts, the continuous chattering and judgment of a too busy mind. A mother who doesn't worry so much about being bad or good but just recognizes that she's both, and neither. A mother who does her best, and for whom that is good enough, even if, in the end, her best turns out to be, simply, not bad. ” Ayelet Waldman (1964 - ) is an Israeli American novelist and essayist best known for her series The Mommy-Track Mysteries.

“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.” Rose Kennedy was matriarch of the American, political Kennedy clan.

“The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children gro