"But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run."

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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning