Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.