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

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.”

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Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.”

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Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.”

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Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.”

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Author:Susan J. Douglas

“Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all her child's wishes and needs. It is not the suffering caused by frustration, however, that leads to emotional illness, but rather the fact that the child is forbidden by the parents to experience and articulate this suffering, the pain felt at being wounded.”

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Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence