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“Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.”

Knows War Mother Next Failing Generations Rocks Motherhood Gods Will Kingdoms Satan Empires Righteous Next Generation Kingdom Of God Cradle Loving Mother

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.”

Men Mother Social Failing Offers Approach Prison Criminals Wallets Social Service

Author:Warren Farrell

“If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.”

Ifs Believe Ideas Mother Failing Love You Instinct Iron If You Believe Mother Love Maternal Instinct

Author:Nancy Friday

“We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.”

Ifs World Ends Mother Poverty Failing Our World

Author:Liya Kebede

“Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.”

World Way Children Moving Mother Purpose Turns Can Do Support Failing Feet Danger Motherhood Streams Traffic Yards Highways Crowded

Author:Margaret Mead

“Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.”

Self Stories Faces Mother Desire Virtue Failing Summer Aging Heat Warmth Preservation Self Preservation Loveliness

Author:N.D. Wilson

“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.”

Ifs Children Enough Feelings Might Faces Mother Worry Failing Anxiety Empathy Concern Mirrors Good Enough Infant Not Good Enough Owing Doing Right

Author:Bruno Bettelheim