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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
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Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.
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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a
very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I
would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more,
I saw at last its meaning and its place;
Not the blind passion of the brooding past,
But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last,
To love as she had never loved before --
To feed and guard and teach the human race.
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Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
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With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the
flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be
persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new
pursuits can also be found in mothering.
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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.
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Women know
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes
And stringing pretty words that make no sense.
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