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parenthood
«Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn /the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.»
Author: Freya Stark
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barren, condemn, disapprove, disapproving, divinity, human soul, insulted, parenthood, righteousness, shrivel, shriveled, shrivels, shrivel up, thwarting, unafraid, venture
«Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.»
Author: Marcelene Cox
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Glory,
Parenthood,
Parents
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grandeur, parenthood, rake, raked, rakes, raking, rearing
«Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.»
«There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Parenthood
| Keywords:
bites, feeding, parenthood
«Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
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parenthood