I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

It's her first grandchild so she's really really really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

I was given baby doll toys myself and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me and her mom's had before her.

I was thinking that when I have children that I should always dress as a character for them so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

I was thinking that when I have children that I should always dress as a character for them so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.

I always knew I wanted kids but when my mom passed away I was like 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back but I can have children.

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth bluntly directly and without much varnish. I am her son.

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart forgive me of my sins and make me a child of God.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Fortunately when you're a mom the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

When you are getting ready to become a mom being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom I'd be fine.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning not the result of ignorance or accident its children will become the foundation of a new race.

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.

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

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

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

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.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.