"One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave."
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"It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones."
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"Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years."
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"Do without if you need to, but don't do without mother."
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"Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of what the culture is ready to recognize as mothering or fathering, but who most certainly is an excellent parent."
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"Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment."
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"The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess."
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"Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself."
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"The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man."
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"Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's."
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"I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things."
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"The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way."
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"I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning."
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"What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?"
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"Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears."
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