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　　Some quotes from notable women on motherhood,
mothering, mothers, family and children. Some are serious, some more
light-hearted. All shed some light on attitudes towards women and
mothers.

　　* "A printed card means nothing except that you
are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than
anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother — and then eat
most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment." —— Anna Jarvis, promoter of
the establishment of Mother's Day

　　* "Arise then, women of this day! Arise, all women
who have hearts! …… We, the women of one country, will be too tender of
those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure
theirs……" [ more] —— Julia Ward Howe, promoter of a Mother's Day for
Peace

　　* "No one who traces the history of motherhood, of
the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal
permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them." —— Jessie Bernard

　　* "To nourish children and raise them against odds
is any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or
design nuclear weapons." —— Marilyn French

　　* "Women's rights in essence is really a movement
for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for
those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with
more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers,
cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings."
—— Jill Ruckelshaus

　　* "No woman can call herself free until she can
choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother." ——
Margaret Sanger

　　* "Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege,
but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical
immortality and triumph over the fear of death." —— Rebecca West

　　* "My mother could make anybody feel guilty —— she
used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know." ——
Joan Rivers

　　* "The best way to keep children home is to make
the home atmosphere pleasant —— and let the air out of the tires." ——
Dorothy Parker

　　* "A wise parent humors the desire for independent
action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule
shall cease." —— Elizabeth Gaskell

　　* "So when the great word 'Mother!' rang once more,

　　I saw at last its meaning and its place;

　　Not the blind passion of the brooding past,

　　But Mother —— the World's Mother —— come at last,

　　To love as she had never loved before ——

　　To feed and guard and teach the human race." —— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

　　* "No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement." —— Florida Scott-Maxwell

　　* "Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say
to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.'" —— Lillian
Carter, at the 1980 Democratic Convention, where her son was nominated
for a second term as US President

　　* "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

　　* "Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity
to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we
would get off the ground." —— Zora Neale Hurston

　　* "At work, you think of the children you have
left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished.
Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent." ——
Golda Meir

　　* "And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more
often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of
the flower they themselves never hoped to see —— or like a sealed
letter they could not plainly read." —— Alice Walker

　　* "Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well* They have the same enemy —— the mother." —— Claudette Colbert

　　* "There was never a great man who had not a great mother —— it is hardly an exaggeration." —— Olive Schreiner

　　* "A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." —— Diana, Princess of Wales

　　* "By and large, mothers and housewives are the
only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great
vacationless class." —— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

　　* "Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I
have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines." —— Amy Tan, in The
Kitchen God's Wife

　　* "Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if
they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to
be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not
to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can
also be found in mothering." —— Elaine Heffner

　　* "God knows that a mother needs fortitude and
courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and
nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen
to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness.
It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children
are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are
adolescents." —— Phyllis McGinley

　　* "Biological possibility and desire are not the
same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to
choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive
than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a
weightlifter." —— Betty Rollin

　　* "If you bungle raising your children, I don't
think whatever else you do well matters very much." —— Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis

　　* "I looked on child rearing not only as a work of
love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and
challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that
demanded the best I could bring to it." —— Rose Kennedy

　　* "Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother." —— Jane Welsh Carlyle

　　* "A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." —— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

　　* "She was the archetypal selfless mother: living
only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their
actions —— and in the end doing them irreparable harm." —— Marcia Muller

　　* "If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent." —— Bette Davis

　　* "Women who miscalculate are called mothers." —— Abigail Van Buren

　　* "Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs…… since the payment is pure love." —— Mildred B. Vermont

　　* "Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!" —— Margaret Mitchell

　　* "Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith
that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait
for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left
everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure
that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit
for this life and the life to come." —— Louisa May Alcott, in Little
Women, chapter 36

　　* "Women know

　　The way to rear up children （to be just）

　　They know a simple, merry, tender knack

　　Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes

　　And stringing pretty words that make no sense."

　　—— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh