After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.