It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth

And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

I can't save the world, but this is one chance for something good to happen to children.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.