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"I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words."
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"I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify."
"Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they were at any age-at any time, even when the child is fully grown or a parent themselves."
"Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark."
"It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you."
"Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows no one else will."
"Motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible."
"We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks."
"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
"A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God."
"Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see."
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"We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?"
"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."
"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't."
"Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you."
"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"
"On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone."
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