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“Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.”
As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it’s just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait and wait for our children to open their hearts to us. And if that doesn’t work, we have to bide our time and look for the moment of weakness when we can sneak back into their lives and they will see us and remember us for the people who love them unconditionally.
No thrust into the heart is greater or more harmful than that from one who says she loves you the most.
Give a low man one ounce of power and he’ll throw ten thousand pounds of bricks on your head.
Mao may say that women hold up half the sky, but it is the lesser half.
But that’s my husband: a small radish who thinks he knows something.
