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Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections
The Astors and the Vanderbilts, their pleasure domes and money: she was sick of it. Sick of envying, sick of herself. She didn't understand antiques or architecture, she couldn't draw like Sylvia, she didn't read like Ted, she had few interests and no expertise. A paucity for love was the only true thing she'd ever had.
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Nicole Krauss _ The History of Love
From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the most. She was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all of our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdrom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos."
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Ann Patchett _ Commonwealth
He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back."
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Zadie Smith _ On Beauty
Generally she kept her head down, but on the occasions she raised it she was treated to the most intimate of panoramic views: the scattered possessions of the three people she had created. Several small items made her cry: a tiny woollen bootie, a broken orthodontic retainer, a woggle from a cub-scout tie. She had not become Malcolm X's private secretary. She never did direct a movie or run for the Senate. She could not fly a plane. But here was all this.
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Fulton J. Sheen _ Life Is Worth Living
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett _ The Secret Garden
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
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Kahlil Gibran _ Sand and Foam
Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth."
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Louisa May Alcott _ Jo's Boys
There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.
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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through
The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.
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Julia Quinn _ The Duke and I
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
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Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The
Quoting Viola Davis {who is sharing rules she lives by}: '4. I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her-the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she's not alone in that wilderness.
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Robert A. Heinlein _ Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
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