When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. —Sophia Loren Mother is the name of God on the lips and hearts of all children. —The Crow (1994) It’s easy for a mother to love her children no matter what. It’s something that just happens. I don’t know if it’s as simple for children. You’re all so busy being angry at us for raising you wrong. —The Bridges of Madison County (1995) When a woman becomes a mother, there’s just this little part of her that takes hold and it grows and grows, this monster mother part. Kind of like those lit- tle things that are in your cereal box, when you add water, that grow to 300 times their original size. Well, when a woman becomes a mother, it just rules her life, this monster mother, 300-times bigger part. —Safe Passage (1994) (After childbirth . . . ) I see everything now, like it’s this long chain stretching all the way back to the