"Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman."

Family, Motherhood, Choice, Freedom, Vocation

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"Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive."

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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

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"Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving."

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"But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again."

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"I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . ."

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

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"We see the world not as it is, but as we are."

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"I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me."

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"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."

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"I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I think it is death- everything but passion seems like death to me. Only in fever do I feel life."

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