"Women know the way to rear up..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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More on Motherhood
“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
“The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly”
“To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.”
More on Children
“We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.”
“... War is for everyone, for children too.I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't.The best way is to come uphill with meAnd have our fire and laugh and be afraid.”
“Children make your life important.”