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"The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters-especially their altruism and devotion-I still don't believe in them. For I know the truth. Only one such miracle worker exists who performs magic in my life, seeing to my wants and needs without fail. That queen is my mother. With unwavering faith I believe in her."
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