Old-Time Happy Housewifery

Album: American Plain Jane

"Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Brown

Album: Mama's Baby

Mother's arms are made of tenderness,
And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
~ Victor Hugo Les Misérables

Album: Children

"Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate."

Album: Family Circle

"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world." ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin

Album: Silver Crowns

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe