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“(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.”

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Author:James Thurber

“What's done to children, they will do to society.”

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Author:Karl A. Menninger

“My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“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.”

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”

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Author:Nancy Friday

“When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.”

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”

Author:Rajneesh