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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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"Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without."
"Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother."
"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."
"A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling."
"What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they're small and to be held by them once they've grown tall. It's empty arms a mother dreads."
"I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify."
"But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it."
"The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life."
"Motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible."
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"McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.""Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming."
"Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother?Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
"I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart."
"Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them."
"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."
"It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye."
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