A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures t ...

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

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

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.