A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

The line humorously distills a familiar form of maternal self-sacrifice: the mother solves scarcity not by demanding a fair share, but by erasing her own desire so others can eat. The “pie” is a domestic, everyday symbol that makes the moral point legible—care is expressed through small, repeated acts of renunciation rather than grand gestures. At the same time, the joke carries an edge: it hints at how cultural expectations can normalize mothers minimizing their needs, even to the point of reflexive self-denial. The quote thus works both as affectionate tribute and as a wry commentary on gendered caregiving roles.