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 The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion 
against the existing law is the saddling read more 
 The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion 
against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child 
with the obligation to become the servant of a man. 
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she read more
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
 The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell 
her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a read more 
 The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell 
her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." 
 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, 
until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a read more 
 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, 
until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. 
 Happy he
 With such a mother! faith in womankind
  Beats with his blood, and trust in all read more 
 Happy he
 With such a mother! faith in womankind
  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
   Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,
    He shall not blind his soul with clay. 
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
 The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to 
her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.
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 The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to 
her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.
 [Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum
  Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.] 
 At the cross, her station keeping,
 Stood the mournful mother, weeping,
  Where He hung, the dying Lord.
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 At the cross, her station keeping,
 Stood the mournful mother, weeping,
  Where He hung, the dying Lord.
   [Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa
    Juxta crucem lacrymosa
     Que pendebat Filius.] 
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he read more
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.