“In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.”

“No matter what happens, please remember that I love you, hridaya patni. Promise me that you'll remember.""It's a pet name our father used to call our mother. It means...wife of my heart.”

“you're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child. ”

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”

“The character for 'love' is composed of two parts...the character for 'heart' embraced by 'acceptance.”

“I have learned that the love a mother has for her child is unique among human emotions. Every mother knows this insticntively, but that doesn't mean it doesn't need articulating.”