These birth mothers tried to make a plan for them that they might have a better life. If they hadn't made this decision, we wouldn't have the three greatest gifts of our life.

They made very sure that you saw this birth defect up close. We knew she had a cleft lip and palate. But we wanted to see pictures of all of her, not just the lip.

...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

We have never seen so many female soldiers. They are mothers. Some of them are single mothers ? great numbers of them. And we are sending them to fight our wars in a way that is unprecedented, not just in American history, but in history around the world.

Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.