"La maternité comporte une suite de poésies douces ou terribles. Pas une heure qui n’ait ses joies et ses craintes."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. — Part I, ch. XLV