"Was it the act of giving birth that……" — Jodi Picoult

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother?… - Jodi Picoult

"Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."

— Jodi Picoult

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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