In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
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It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.
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A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
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Home is where your mom is.
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman.
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She’s my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
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Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep.
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I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. Long enou
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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Motherhood All love begins and ends there.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them
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In a free country the national life stands in direct relation to the home life, the public life reacts upon the family, and the family furnish...
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.
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Old as she was, she still missed her Daddy sometimes.
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My mother used to have an expression. There’s only one woman around this house, it’s me.
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There are three stages of a man's life: There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.
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A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obl...
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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Daughters teach mothers to enjoy girl time, especially hair braiding. Mothers teach daughters that they are beautiful just the way they are.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
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