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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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There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. – Rajneesh

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Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. – John Lancaster Spalding

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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. – Moorish Proverb

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