For the sake of the sons - ...

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.
 Pam Brown

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However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
 Pam Brown
You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.
 Pam Brown
Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.
 Pam Brown
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
 Pam Brown
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.
 Pam Brown