1- “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” 2- “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” 3- “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” 4- “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” 5- Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.” 6- “A mother understands what a child does not say.” 7- “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” 8- “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” 9- “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” 10- “We are born of love; love is our mother.”