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Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
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mother
motherhood
mothering
parenting
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
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mothering
respect
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Barbara Delinsky |
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When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all of these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to speak and given a thousand other things, over and over again, hourly, daily, for years. She gave me everything before she gave me nothing.
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babies
childhood
children
family
family-relationships
motherhood
mothering
mothers
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Rebecca Solnit |
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She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~
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life-lessons
motherhood
mothering
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Susan Wiggs |
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Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother thinks was merely cute may have been lethal.
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cuteness
men-and-women
mothering
mothers
mothers-and-daughters
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Margaret Atwood |
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Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal.
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entertaining
mothering
mothers
mothers-and-daughters
solicitous
well-behaved-women
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Margaret Atwood |