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

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.”

Love Doe Earth Mother Force Love Is Powerful Former Most Powerful Parenthood Irrational Mother Love

Book:Full Cry: A Novel

Source: Full Cry: A Novel

“We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.”

Love Looks Littles Earth Faces Mother Answers Yearning Mother Earth Little Women

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.”

Ifs Knows Love Pain Mother Love Is Passionate Passionate Love Love Is Pain

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.”

Men Love Funny Mother Marriage Married Very Good Good Man

Book:The Portable Bernard Shaw

Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw

“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes - She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”

“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”

Love Funny Mother Careers Four Groups Majors Humorous Guilt Witty Secret Love Food Love

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.”

Men Love Kind Children Two Mother Interest Creatures Painful Vain Excitement Delusion Providence Kinds Of Love

Author:Octave Feuillet

“it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible”

Love Wanted Mother Girl Impossible Shoes Odd Bergman Impossible Love

Author:Gregory Corso