Who said “But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the…”?

“Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.”

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

“Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.”

“The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.”

“Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles — and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech — look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.”

“Those who trust us educate us.”

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”