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“There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.”

Ifs Littles War Light Pain Remember Mother Girl Process Hours Perfect Cities Silence Darkness Sitting Oil Pregnant Lamps Farming Spinning Barns Midwife Yarn Birthing Mares City Girl

Author:Diet Eman

“The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.”

Two Play Feelings Body Mother Perfect Blood Baby Absolutes Unions Tiny Mood Cells Womb Madmen Hormones Suspended

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.”

Knows May Mother Perfect Grandmother Grandparent Perfect Happiness

Book:Pilgrim's Inn

Source: Pilgrim's Inn

“First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.”

Firsts Has Beens Mother Perfect Wife Expected First Lady

Book:First Lady from Plains

Source: First Lady from Plains

“Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly precious and concentrated because the rest of your day is completely packed with diapers, edible liquid foods that look like pooh, tiny bathtubs, and unconditional love.”

Writing Looks Mother Hours Perfect Waste Tiny Unconditional Love Wasting Time Unconditional Liquid Being A Mother Diapers Bathtubs

Author:Chiara Barzini

“We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!”

Should Kind Law Mother Names Parent Perfect Female Sacred Titles Profane

Book:The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition

“When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.”

Writing Years School Mother Sound Perfect Taught Harmony Notes Musical Noise Homework Transfers Music Education Musical Notes

Author:Yoko Ono

“Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.”

Light Faces Mother Perfect Alive Swimming Amber Swimmer Dead Mother

Author:Allen Tate

“In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.”

Ifs Humans Children Stills Would Be Mother Perfect Possibility Baby Adults Helpless Still Life

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.”

“What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.”

Knows Writing Mother Perfect Rooms Minutes Taught Willing Ten

Author:Emma Donoghue