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Anna, Madre, Maya, Gaho, Amhika, …Madrona, Cybele, Madra, Umm, Yadra, Amhi, Maame, Shima, Maia, Ambika
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"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"; "Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children."; "Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."; "For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains."; "The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is. mothers really need to be given the ability to parent."; …"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."; "We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."; "I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"; "What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."; "Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."; "I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."; "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."; "And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."; "Men are what their mothers made them."; "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."; "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."; "Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."