Pastoral Resources

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science.

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.