Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.

Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.

One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish

Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.

For as long as I am your mother and you are my only child, i will worry and hope and pray for you. Do not ask the impossible.

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed.

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.

y and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body