It isn't the incompetence of mothers that is at issue, but the absence of half of the adult support needed for families to be most effective.

Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.

I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.

There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.