A busy mother makes slothful daughters. - (Proverb, Portuguese - Mothers)

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. - (Unknown, Source - Mothers)

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it. - (Howells, William Dean - Mothers)

A mother understands what a child does not say. - (Proverb, Jewish - Mothers)

A mother who is really a mother is never free. - (Balzac, Honore De - Mothers)

A mother's heart is always with her children. - (Proverb - Mothers)

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. - (Eliot, George - Mothers)

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. - (Greer, Germaine - Mothers)

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. - (Proverb, Spanish - Mothers)

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother. - (Nunn, Gregory - Mothers)

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son. - (Rich, Adrienne - Mothers)

Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter. - (Rollin, Betty - Mothers)

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. - (Eliot, George - Mothers)

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. - (Oakley, Ann - Mothers)

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. - (Paglia, Camille - Mothers)