She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. A mother's heart is always with her children. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement Please read our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer .