Her name was Margaret Lyon Morgan. I never told her how grateful I am for being my mother, but now I remember and honor her.
Although a 19th-century poem by William Ross Alice is seldom remembered, there are lines in it often quoted: For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
Fathers and men may think they rule the world, but it is mothers and women who shape it because they usually are our primary caregivers from the moment we enter the world through our growing-up years. The best mothers nurture a healthy and sane world; the worst a world of chaos and confusion.