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

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

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

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

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

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

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.