"I learned so much about men by having a son."
-BARBRA STREISAND
"I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us."
-SUZANNE SOMERS
"A lot of us who came of age  in the 1960s are very wary of authority.  But you can't be your child's friend, you have to turn into a parent."
-WENDY SCHUMAN
"Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it."
-ROSIE THOMAS
"Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future."
-GAIL LUMET BUCKLEY
"Your children are always your "babies", even if they have gray hair."
-JANET LEIGH
"The walks and talks we have with our two-year-olds in red boots have a great deal to do with the values they will cherish as adults."
-EDITH F. HUNTER
"I do not teach children, I give them joy."
-ISADORA DUNCAN
"Part of the good part of being a parent is a constant sense of deja vu.  But some of what you have to vu you never want to vu again."
-ANNA QUINDLEN
"Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother."
-BEVERLY JONES
"When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was.  Not better, necessarily;  not worse, necessarily;  but different."
-NORA EPHRON
"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
-HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
"When she reviewed her parenting, she never thought...of the good school, the advantages, as they were called.  No, what she felt she had given them was her attention:  Her love, her caring, her willingness to listen."
-MARGE PIERCY
"I never expected motherhood to be champagne every night and breakfast in bed.  I knew there would be rough spots, and for the most part I haven't minded them.  I can handle the 2 a.m. feedings, changing diapers, cleaning up vomit and sitting through a G-rated movie.  What drives me crazy is the nagging."
-LINDA HENLEY
"Mothers are always at the call of other people's needs and desires."
-AGNES DE MILLE
"Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one."
-MARGARET ATWOOD
"It is tough.  If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy."
-BARBARA WALTERS
"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease."
-LISA ALTHER
"I suppose there must be in every mother's life, the inevitable moment when she has to take two small children shopping in one big store."
-SHIRLEY JACKSON
"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."
-PEARL S. BUCK
"I think it must be somewhere written, that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children."
-CHARLES DICKENS
"My evolution into a politician developed not in opposition to my role as a mother, but as an extension of it."
-MADELEINE KUNIN
"Some deep encoded pattern drew her to her children and made her circle them:  Her body itself was divided between them and the rest of the human world."
-MARY GORDON
"Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein."
-VICTOR HUGO
"Motherhood emotionally and physically changes a woman.  Your head and your body get connected so fast."
-ROSEANNE BARR
"You...are life itself when I touch you, and you become heavy and warm and lean against me."
-LIV ULLMAN
"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."
-AGATHA CHRISTIE
"Love twisted suddenly...inside her, compelling her to reach into the crib and lift up the moist, breathing weight....the smells of baby powder and clean skin and warm flannel mingled with the sharp scent of wet nappy."
-ROSIE THOMAS
"If you want a baby, have a new one.  Don't baby the old one."
-JESSAMYN WEST
"In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other."
-ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
"You are entirely engrossed in your own body and the life it holds.  It is as if you were in the grip of a powerful force;  as if a wave had lifted you up and beyond everyone else.  In this way there is always a part of a pregnant woman that is unreachable and is reserved for the future--her baby."
-SOPHIA LOREN
