The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can...

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and...

There is?nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people. H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy C. Fisher, quoted...

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. Pearl Buck, quoted in...

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? Elizabeth Cady...

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. Thomas...

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you...

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003