“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
“The phrase ‘Working Mother’ is redundant.” — Jane Sellman
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.” — Margaret Culkin Banning
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” — Linda Wooten
“Any mother could do the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.” — Lisa Alther
“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.” — Jessica Lange
“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
“We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.” — Gregory Nunn
“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” — Emily Dickinson
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln