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“A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
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
“Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.”
Buddha
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
Oprah Winfrey
“A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
Emily Dickinson
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
Oscar Wilde
“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
Maya Angelou
“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”
Alice Walker