# My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”~ Mark Twain

# “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.”~ Sophia Loren, from Women and Beauty
# “Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”~ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
# “A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.”~ Unknown
# “The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother–which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.” ~ Sidney J. Harris