"The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."
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"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality."
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"Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat."
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"I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about."
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"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well."
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"There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate."
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"How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be."
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"There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences."
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"Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time."
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"It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift."
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"I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart."
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"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."
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"Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in?"
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"Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more."
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"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."
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"How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness."
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"In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."
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"Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is."
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"Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience."
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"The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!"
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