The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with wa…

Adrienne Rich
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1976). Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
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