There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
Interpretation
A mother's fierce love and determination to protect her child is unmatched.
This quote emphasizes the extraordinary strength and courage that a mother exhibits when it comes to defending her child. It illustrates the idea that a mother's instinctual drive to protect her offspring can be as powerful and fierce as that of any warrior, highlighting the deep bond and responsibility of motherhood.
In practice
During a school presentation on the importance of family, one might use this quote to illustrate a mother's role.
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter whatβs been taken from us or what poison weβve internalized or how hard weβve had to work to expel it β β we all get to dream.
It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.
There is nothing foolish about hope.
But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn't it?
Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?
With my family, I'm trying to raise them to have respect for all people and make friends around the world and feel at home with the world and really live a truly global life because I think it's what forms them and it's really important to me.
There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.
It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.
I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
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