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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. 
 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother 
of all living.  
 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother 
of all living. 
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when read more
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
 That it should come to this,
 But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
  So read more 
 That it should come to this,
 But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
  So excellent a king, that was to this
   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,
      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
       As if increase of appetite had grown
        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--
         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--
          A little month, or ere those shoes were old
           With which she followed my poor father's body
            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--
             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,
               My father's brother, but no more like my father
                Than I to Hercules. 
 There is none,
 In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
  Of deep, strong, deathless love, read more 
 There is none,
 In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
  Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within
   A mother's heart. 
We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child read more
We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.
 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.] 
 A mother is a mother still,
 The holiest thing alive.  
 A mother is a mother still,
 The holiest thing alive. 
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.