Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, silver print.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." - Henry Ward Beecher.

The phrase "working mother" is redundant." - Jane Sellman.

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." - Oscar Wilde.

"The angels, whispering to one another can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of "Mother." - Edgar Allen Poe.

"The mother-child relationship is very paradoxical. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and become fully independent." - Erich Fromm.

"Madres, en vuestras manos teneis la salvacion del mundo" - Leon Tolstoi.