notable quotables: mother's day edition.

 (photo by mark shaw)

if you bungle raising your children, i don't think whatever else you do well matters much. - jackie o.

the most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. —jill churchill  

 

whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.  -james joyce

 (photo by jenni goldman)

every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.  -moorish proverb

the heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. —honoré de balzac  

my mother is a poem
i'll never be able to write,
though everything i write
is a poem to my mother.
-sharon doubiago