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“My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.”

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Author:William Blake

“[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.”

Matter Mother Church Baby Arms Catholic Russia Hats Flags Bores Coats Spain Catholic Church Bores You

Author:Ilka Chase

“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.”

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Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.”

Knows May Pain Joy Mother Jesus Christ Love Is Dying Bears Jesus Christ Blessed Endless Bores

Book:Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich

Source: Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich

“But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!”

Writing Book Mother Bores

Author:Robert Musil