“If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.”
Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses
Source: Half Broke Horses
“Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated”
— Robert Greene, book The 48 Laws of Power
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
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