“Over time, we would learn each other and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.”

“I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and with out roots.”

“Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.”

“New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland.- Being a mother is one of the most rewarding jobs on earth and also one of the most challenging.- Motherhood is a process. Learn to love the process.- There is a tremendous amount of learning that takes place in the first year of your baby’s life; the baby learns a lot, too.- It is sometimes difficult to reconcile the fantasy of what you thuoght motherhood would be like, and what you thought you would be like as a mother, with reality.- Take care of yourself. If Mommy isn’t happy, no one else in the family is happy either.- New mother generally need to lower their expectations.- A good mother learns to love her child as he is and adjusts her mothering to suit her child.”

“Half of them loved her like a daughter, and other half wanted to spread her legs, but either sort would die for her.”

“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”