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The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that t

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. – Francis Thompson

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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. – Francis Thompson

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The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

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