All Kinds of Mothers – Various Authors

In this thoughtful collection, dozens of Latter-day Saint women across generations share their gospel insights and the occasional contradictions found in everyday motherhood. Perfect for all women in whatever role they occupy, All Kinds of Mothers examines motherhood from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, reminding us that there are countless ways to fulfill the divine calling of motherhood. Through essays, short messages, and quotes from well-known favorites like Chieko Okazaki and Patricia T. Holland to newer voices such as Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye and Brooke Romney, this book explores what motherhood means in all of its facets—from comfort to hardship, sorrow to happiness, the mundane to the divine, and everything in between.

A compilation of short essays and thoughts about motherhood in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Beppie Harrison, Emily Watts, Mary Ellen Edmunds, Brooke Romney, Marilyn Jeppson Choules, Jaroldeen Edwards, Neill Marriott, Beverly Campbell, Camille Fronk Olson, Carolyn Rasmus, Kathleen Hinckley Barnes Walker, Mary Holland McCann, Virginia U. Jensen, Calee Reed, Wendy Ulrich, Kathleen Null, Elaine S. Dalton, Afton Day, Virgina H. Pearce, Zandra Vranes, Whitney Permann, Barbara B. Smith, Shirley W. Thomas, Margaret D. Nadauld, Sheri Dew, Francine R. Bennion, Laurel C. Day, Mary Cook, Chieko Okazaki, Ardeth G. Kapp, KaRyn Lay, Patricia T. Holland, Elaine Cannon, Emily Belle Freeman, Marilynne Todd Linford, Linda S. Reeves, Kimberley Burton Heuston, Melissa Young, Joy F. Evans, Michelle Schmidt, Melissa Inouye, Tessa Meyer Santiago, Jane Clayson Johnson, Amy Hardison, Karen J. Ashton, Lisa Valentine Clark, Camilla Eyring Kimball, Linda J. Eyre, Janene W. Baadsgaard.