Cherish the Women

Let's forget to feel guilty and celebrate instead! I hope you steal a few moments to yourself today. Here's to all the mothers!

And remember that behind every successful woman......is a basket of dirty laundry. (Author unknown)

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. (Sam Levenson)

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. (Chinese Proverb)

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. (Barbara Kingsolver)

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. (Peter De Vries)

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

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. (James Fenton)

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. (Tenneva Jordan)

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me? (Nancy Thayer)

Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. (Elizabeth Stone)