

5. "My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her." - Jodi Picoult
6. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." - Irish Proverb



14. "Personally, I’ve always known that I wanted to go back to work because I’m confident, and I’m certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I’m doing the things that I’m excited about and that I’m passionate about." - Lisa Ling
15. "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" - Milton Berle
16. "Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." - Unknown
17. "A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
18. "When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary." - Connie Schultz


Happy Mother's Day to mothers and women everywhere.
Sewn with love,