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"Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit."
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"A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling."
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"We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks."
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"A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids."
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"There is no greater heaven the heart of a loving mother."
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"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
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"Motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible."
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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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"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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"(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer."
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"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."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
Identity
"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
Parenting
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
Family
"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."
Spiritual
"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
Life
"There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover."
Life
"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires."
Family
"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."
Spiritual
"She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong."
Love
"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
Parenting
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