I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?

- Angelina Grimke

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

- Bill Watterson

I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.

- Annie Potts

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

- Augustus Hare

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

- Ariel Gore

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

- Alice Lowe

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

- Andrei Platonov

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

- Ann Romney

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

- Alveda King

All mothers go through the exact same things.

- Angie Harmon

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

- Adam Sandler

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

- Aristotle

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

- Arianna Huffington

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

- Anne Robinson

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

- Andrew Young

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

- Alice Walker

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

- Alice Walker

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.

- Alexa Von Tobel

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

- Adrienne Rich