The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.