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“Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.”

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Author:Joan Ryan

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“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.”

Men Children Law Secret Motherhood Obligation Servant Rebellion Furious

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

“A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"”

Knows Believe Children Doe Mother Belief Don't Believe Motherhood God Knows

Author:Yip Harburg

“Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.”

Children Problem Form Parent Influence Television Color Products Baby Expectations Motherhood Shade Ads Problem Solving Being A Parent

Book:Between generations: the six stages of parenthood

Source: Between generations: the six stages of parenthood

“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.”

Way Children Names Motherhood Tricks Manners Good Man Fatherhood Good Manners Bribe Wholesale Emulation

Book:Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

“The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.”

Children Training Motherhood

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother”

Children Mother Destiny Motherhood Just A Mom Future Destiny

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.”

“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.”

Want Should Wells Children Reason Suffering Easy Common Knowing Harm Motherhood Not Knowing Having Children

Author:Dora Russell