“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together”
“Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.”
“Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well, My mother.”
“No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.”
“Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.”
“I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.”