The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are we must know our mothers names.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children you're thinking about working.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Sweater n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Yes Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet there would be no more wars.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive but I have photographs of her.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub Son stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says Toughen up this is reality we are living in.

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

My mother said to me 'If you are a soldier you will become a general. If you are a monk you will become the Pope.' Instead I was a painter and became Picasso.

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.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No six should be enough.'

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say but in the lives they lead.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Men are what their mothers made them.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.