A mother who is really a mother is never free.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.