I need a quote to start out my college essay about a mother's loss of a child. Please help!! Thanks so much.

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, Women and Beauty

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ~Isadora Duncan

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~Washington Irving

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams