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“I have witnessed this so often, and been profoundly impressed by the inexplicable transfiguration of women at the moment of their baby's birth, that I have been led…to ask: why this? It is not sentimentality; it is not relief from suffering; it is not simply satisfaction of accomplishment... Can it be that the Creator intended to draw mothers nearest to Himself at the moment of love's fulfilment?” (25).

“If there is one characteristic more desirable to be maintained in communal life, it is the dignity of motherhood. Those of us who have known it from personal experience in our own homes, or from professional associations, visualise it in those calm, competent, and companionable women who live to a great age, acutely sensitive to, but unshakeable by either the cruelties or the rewards of having lived” (8).