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"It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences."
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"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."
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"Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see."
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"A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life."
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"I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood."
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"I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it."
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"When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang."
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"As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity."
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"Being a mother is not about 'birthing a child into the world.' Rather, it is about repeatedly 'birthing into the child' a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother."
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"She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink."
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"Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Truth
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
Truth
"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
Society
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
Life
"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."
Time
"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
Work
"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
People
"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
Life
"There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing."
Science
"People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
Dream
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