“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“… the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”
— Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women
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