I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
Motherhood is. . . difficult and. . . rewarding.
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.
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.