| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45479 |
| QUOTATION: | Maternity is on the face of it an unsocial experience. 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Emily James Putnam (18651944), U.S. educator, author. Introduction, The Lady (1910). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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