All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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