Mother's Day

“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes, and books, to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about [arithmetic], and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? ...a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.”
~G. K. Chesterton

“[A mother] does what she does not because she is going to be paid for her services ...but because she wants to do it. And she does ‘the things worth doing,’ which are the things closest and most sacred to all of humanity – nurturing a baby, teaching a child the first things, and, in fact, all things.”
~Dale Ahlquist