And, because she so illumined and glorified her clan,
She brought to every father, every mother through the empire,
Happiness when a girl was born rather than a boy.

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

La joie d’une mère est une lumière qui jaillit jusque sur l’avenir et le lui éclaire, mais qui se reflète sur le passé pour lui donner le charme des souvenirs.

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

mother is promptly congratulated by hundreds of her neighbors.

I'm grateful that I get to be their mother

But instead my mother was the happiest woman in Cameroon as her daughter that she long waited 15 years to bring to the world was carrying a whole country in her hands.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

I wrote this song to celebrate mothers all over the globe who pray tirelessly for the growth and success of their children.

"It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

The pride of any mother is to give birth to a responsible and successful child.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author.

Clearly, Mother de Gupta dearly loved motherhood – mostly, for the chance that it offered her to boss around small, helpless people.