"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."--Oprah Winfrey

"Every minute in the presence of a child takes seven minutes off your life."--Barbara Kingsolver

"In the end, it's not what you do for your children, but what you've taught them to do for themselves."--Ann Landers

"The more people have studied the different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."--Benjamin Spock

Contributors include:

Oprah Winfrey

Edith Wharton

Eleanor Roosevelt

Diana, Princess of Wales

William Blake

Barbara Kingsolver

Agatha Christie

Barbara Walters

Benjamin Spock

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Bette Davis

Harry S. Truman

Anna Quindlen

Mark Twain

Beatrix Potter

Pablo Picasso

Ann Landers

Dr. Joyce Brothers

William Shakespeare

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis