Erica Jong Quotes

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.

My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.

You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

We are always children to our mothers.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.

I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my mother to this day.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

You only get one mom.