I guess you're right, Mother Smith, ... we just have no idea of what the future holds, do we?

When would you stop time, Mother Smith?

I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

He wrote home almost every day. He would always ask somebody to pray for him. ... Mother sensed something was wrong.