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mother

baby

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Ancient Egyptian

flea

person

collective noun

marriage

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Woody Allen

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washing dishes

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doing the dishes

mothering

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relationship

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Star Wars

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is a real, omnipotent 'power', a law unto herself, who responds to the child's cries as she pleases.

First of all, following Lacan, the mother comes to be seen as a real, omnipotent 'power', a law unto herself, who responds to the child's cries as she pleases.

is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother. Meghan O'Rourke

is quite simply a woman who miscalculated.

Women who miscalculate are called 'mothers.'

is never free when she is really a mother.

A mother who is really a mother is never free. A mother who is really a mother is never free. Honore de Balzac

is, in some cases, in need of happy children, in others, in need unhappy ones in order to prove their maternal virtues.

Some mothers need happy children... others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. Friedrich Nietzsche

is one in whose hands the future of a nation lies.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers. Honore de Balzac

is always caught in a tragic paradox. The mother-child relationship requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Erich Fromm

is an entirely different kind of role model vis-a-vis her daughter than she is vis-a-vis her son. While every woman's tragedy is that she becomes her mother, every man's tragedy is he doesn't.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy. Oscar Wilde

mother, n.All

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