La science de la mere comporte des merites silencieux, ignores de tous, sans parade, une vertu en detail, un devouement de toutes les heures.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The science of the mother contains silent merits, unnoticed by all, a virtue in detail, a devotion of all hours.
- In plain terms
- Maternal work is quietly virtuous and devoted.
- What can you take from it?
- Value the unnoticed, continuous efforts of mothers.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How can silent merits be recognized?
- What does devotion look like for you?
Another view
It may idealize motherhood as perpetual devotion.
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