“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

“There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise o...”

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't b...”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does co...”

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”

“Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know a...”

“A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.”

“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived...”

“Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps...”

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”