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It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

—Ogden Nash

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The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

—Mark Twain

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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

—King Edward VIII

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That's sort of a cliche about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.

—Jill Churchill

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There is nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

—Homer

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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

—Heather Armstrong

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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

—Euripides

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The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

—Ellen Goodman

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A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

—Elain Heffner

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There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.

—Dick Cavett

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Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

—Bern Williams

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Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

—Barbara Schapiro

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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.

—Anna Quindlen

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