Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. - Oprah Winfrey

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. - Anne Tyler

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing. - Barbara Bush

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. - Eustache Deschamps

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most, an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge. - Helene Iswolsky

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. - Marilyn French

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family. - Elizabeth Ann Seton

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then. - Hazel Scott

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother. - Homer

My darling little girl-child, after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more, I have my baby. - Martha Martin

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved? - Florida Scott-Maxwell

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success. - Ann Landers

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. - Anita Baker

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content." - Lauren Bacall