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— Melody Beattie"Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two."
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The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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