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title: "3 Motherliness Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-key/social-motherliness-has-made-women-s-struggle-for-liberty-the/)

[Ellen Key](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-key/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/ellen-key-6012_altruism_social-motherliness-has-made-women-s-str_451899.png)

> [ \[a\] heavy sense of guilt \[is\] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helene-deutsch/a-heavy-sense-of-guilt-is-the-most-potent-factor-in-the-whole/)

[Helene Deutsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helene-deutsch/)

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> [Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-key/tenderness-has-created-the-first-social-order-that-of-the-mother-with/)

[Ellen Key](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-key/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/ellen-key-6012_civilization_tenderness-has-created-the-first-social_2871214.png)

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