Mothers were the same all through the centuries…a great sisterhood of love and service…the remembered and the unremembered alike. 
(~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside)

 “See,” said Hook in answer to Smee’s question, “that is a mother. What a lesson! The nest must have fallen into the water, but would the mother desert her eggs? No.” 
(~J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan)

“...now that I am a mother, I understand what Mother's Day is about: it's about looking through our lives and recognizing the act of mothering everywhere we see it, and more than that, recognizing that when any of us mother--when we listen, nurture, nourish, protect--we're doing sacred work.” 
(Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way)