“…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.”

“Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.”

“If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.”

“It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”

“She's the one that stumbles when she talks about
The seven foreign films that she's checked out
Such a fortunate fool
She's just too good to be true
She's such a fortunate fool”

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

“The dead are free from Fortune; Mother Earth has room for all her children, and he who lacks an urn has the sky to cover him.”
Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellus quae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.

“The future destiny of the child is always the work of his mother. Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”

“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”