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“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Mothers are all slightly insane.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues when they have girls to manage.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“for a mother who has lost her child, it is always the first day. That grief never grows old. The mourning garments may grow white and threadbare, the heart remains dark.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Mrs d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song. To me at least, who gave it to you.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves—our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. Now that...” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career.” Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power
“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic...” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Women, in whom life lingers and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully, and more confidently, must surely have become riper and more human in their depths than light, easygoing man, who is not pulled down beneath the surface of life by the...” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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