{"quotes":[{"text":"...If I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong.","author":"Mordecai Richler","tags":["babies-kids-children-givingup","concern-for-others","fatherhood","fret","fretting","maternal-love","maternalism","motherhood","paternal-love","paternal-protection","paternalism","protect-my-sleeping-babes","worry"],"id":1933,"author_id":"Mordecai+Richler"},{"text":"Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.","author":"Anita Diamant","tags":["baby","childbirth","giving-birth","having-a-baby","love","maternal-love","mother-s-love","motherhood","mothers","women"],"id":54757,"author_id":"Anita+Diamant"},{"text":"I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["guilty-conscience","laila","longing","maternal-love","miracle"],"id":158903,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"},{"text":"I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["dilemmaa","laila","life-and-living","maternal-love","mothers-and-daughters"],"id":203514,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"},{"text":"I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["blessed","blessing","child","children","dad","daughter","family","father","fortunate","grateful","gratefulness","gratitude","imagine","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live","lives","love","luck","lucky","maternal","maternal-love","mom","mother","mum","parent","parents","paternal","paternal-love","previous-lives","quotes","reincarnate","reincarnation","son","suffer","suffered","suffering","thankful","thankfulness","thanks"],"id":246326,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would fight tigers barehanded, climb down cliffs, throw myself in the path of a speeding car, and even do calculus again if I needed to, for this child.","author":"Kiran Manral","tags":["children","maternal-love","maternity","parenting"],"id":300282,"author_id":"Kiran+Manral"},{"text":"Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments. ~ Ananya Mehta.","author":"Kirtida Gautam","tags":["discipline","maternal-love","parenting"],"id":345154,"author_id":"Kirtida+Gautam"},{"text":"I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed--though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman.","author":"Elizabeth Peters","tags":["maternal-love","maternalism","motherhood","parenting","parenting-humor"],"id":387238,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Peters"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}