10 BEAUTIFUL IMAGES & IDEAS ABOUT MAMAS

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”

-- Stevie Wonder

“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.”

-- Louisa May Alcott

“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets you go.”

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“[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary—it’s an act of infinite optimism.”

-- Gilda Radner

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

-- Robert Browning

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

-- Mitch Albom

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

-- Barbara Kingsolver

“Birth is the epicenter of women’s power.”

-- Ani DiFranco

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

-- Maya Angelou

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

-- Victor Hugo

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Jashim Salam. “Grazing in the mustard field.” Courtesy of UN Women Asia and the Pacific.
2. Image: by June Yarham. “Motherhood.”
3. Image: by Linda Hosek. “Women pilots of World War II inspired generations.” Courtesy of  Defense Department.
4. Image: by Eskinder Debebe. “Secretary-General Visits Refugee Camps in Chad.” Courtesy of United Nations Photo.
5. Image: Tambako the Jaguar. “One of the Asiatic lion cubs of the zoo of Zürich cuddling with mom Joy.”
6. Image: by Tambako The Jaguar. “Serval kitten with mom.”
7. Image: by Nicole Beaulac. “Costa’s Hummingbird and Babies”.
8. Image: by Nina Vieira. “Esperando Aisha Badu.” Courtesy of Anna Carolina Vieira Santos.
9. Image: by danabooo. “Hurricane.”
10. Image: by premasagar. “Babe in Arms.”
11. Image: “Blue Marble (Planet Earth).” Courtesy of NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center.
12. Image: by mr.donb. “Motherhood.”
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14. Image: by paras gupta. “Motherhood…”