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“The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.”
Giuseppe Mazzini
“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.”
Amy Heckerling
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
Mark Twain
“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"”
Eve Merriam
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
Erich Fromm
“Men are what their mothers made them”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”
“Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart”
Danish Proverb
