"Your body is the first thing any child of man ever
wanted. Therefore dispose yourself to be loved, to be wanted, to be available.
Be there for them with a vengeance. Be a gracious, bending woman.
Incline your ear, your heart, your hands to them.... To be a Mother is to be
the sacrament - the effective symbol - of place. Mothers do not make homes, they are our
home."
from Bed and Board, Robert Farrar Capon
as cited on Mothers Are Home
(I highly recommend this blog!)