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"No influence is so powerful as that of the mother." -- Sarah Josepha Hale "Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all." -- Katherine Butler Hathaway "The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws." -- Barbara Kingsolver "A mother understands what a child does not say." -- Jewish Proverb "To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language." -- Arlene Benedict "Mothers are instinctive philosophers." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Men are what their mothers made them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The phrase 'working mother' is redundant." -- Jane Sellman "The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." -- Rajneesh "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." -- Abraham Lincoln "Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together." -- Pearl S. Buck "A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother." -- Anonymous "A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." --  Agatha Christie "Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." -- Ambrose Bierce "Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that." -- Golda Meir "The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." -- Honoré de Balzac "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." -- Oscar Wilde "An ounce of mother is worth a 1 pound of clergy." -- Spanish Proverb "A mother never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along." -- Margaret Culkin Banning "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 "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" -- Milton Berle "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." -- Aristotle "Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand." -- Helen Hunt Jackson "Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort." -- John Lancaster Spalding