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Every Mother is a working mother.
(Slogan, U.S.)
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This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 267, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Woman and Child," aphorism 387, "Maternal Kindness," (1878).)
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"O I have killed my hawk so good,
Mother, mother;
(Unknown. Edward (l. 5-6).
OxBB. Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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Seeking in one place always another,
And travelling further from mother, from mother....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The house on the edge of the serious wood.")
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Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.
(Honorι De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist. Renιe in a letter to Louise, in Letters of Two Brides (Mιmoires de Deux Jeunes Mariιes), in La Presse (1841-1842), Souverain (1842), included in the Scθnes de la Vie Privιe in the Comιdie humaine (1845, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971).)
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Whether your kindness, mother,
Is mother of silences.
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Seasons of the Soul.")
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Remember that every son had a mother
whose beloved son he was,
and every woman had a mother
whose beloved son she wasn't.
(Marge Piercy (20th century), U.S. writer. "Doing It Differently," Circles on the Water (1892).)
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