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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. ~From the television show The Golden Girls

"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."Hubbard, Elbert

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."Lin Yu-tang

"I live for my sons. I would be lost without them."Diana, Princess of Wales

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."Barton, Bruce

"Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich."Frost, Robert

"For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son."Dworkin, Andrea

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."Wadworth, Charles