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It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.