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In this book we are going to talk about the things a devoted mother does by just being herself. pg17

The idea is that the more they know, the more they will be able to afford to trust their own judgement. It is when a mother trusts her own judgement that she is at her best. pg25

If she is feeling free to act in the way that comes naturally to her, she grows in the job. pg26

In the ordinary things you do you are quite naturally doing very important things, and the beauty of it is that you do not have to be clever (..) You may be really clever. But all this does not matter, and it hasn’t anything to do with whether you are a good mother or not. (...) Isn’t it strange that such a tremendously important thing should depend so little on exceptional intelligence!