"No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy."

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Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

— Margaret Mead