Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried
jobs... since the payment is pure love.
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She
never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A
mother is something absolutely new.
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your
mother.
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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your
thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and
once for her child.
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Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to
do the impossible.
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Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts
and worries.
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The real religion of the world comes from women much more
than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our
souls in their bosoms.
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to
decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your
body.
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up
children; now I have six children, and no theories.
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?
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Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help
you reach it faster, too.
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks
of our children.
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every
mother has it.
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin
unprotected.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in
the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder
and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the
desire to beget children is a natural urge.
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but
his mother the longest.
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Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it
embarrasses your children.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little
children.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is
parents.
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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun
out of middle age.
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because
they are more certain they are their own.
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