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"A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world."
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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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"A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God."
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"Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see."
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"Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman-a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy-a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other."
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"I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference, ' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.'If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be."
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"A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life."
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"Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world."
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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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"Determined, I riseand face the dawn with resolve.This time I will win."
Determination
"When you love someone, you don't care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious."
Humor
"Live today facing forward-with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment."
Mindfulness
"On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless. And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay."
Comfort
"Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one."
Caution
"A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities, it keeps your avatar strong."
Creativity
"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."
Criticism
"Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls."
Courage
"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"
Imagination
"Walk with me for a while, my friend-you in my shoes, I in yours-and then let us talk."
Companionship
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