The Quotable Mom

A heart-warming collection of humorous, profound,thoughtful and compelling remarks and observations about and by mothers."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 Kingslover"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 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 SpockContributors include: Oprah Winfrey, Edith Wharton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Diana, Princess of Wales, William Blake, Barbara Kingslover, 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. (5 7/8 x 6 7/8, 288 pages)Kate Rowinski is co-author of The L.L. Bean Outdoor Photography Handbook and editor of The Quotable Cook. She lives in both Yarmouth, Maine, and Charlottesville, Virginia.