Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

It's the moms of this nation - single married widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers we're the wives we're the grandmothers we're the big sisters we're the little sisters we're the daughters. You know it's true don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

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.

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

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

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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

My argument is simple which is that for several thousand years in Western civilization marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers If I belittle dogs and mothers.

To the former child migrants who came to Australia from a home far away led to believe this land would be a new beginning when only to find it was not a beginning but an end an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise and we are sorry.

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.