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"As a mother a woman is another person than the woman without child. She carries the fruit of the night for nine months in her body. Something grows into her life that never again departs from it. She is a mother and remains a mohter even though her child dies. For at one time she carried the child under her heart and it does not go out of her heart ever again."

--An Abyssinian noblewoman quoted by Leo Frobenius in "Der Kopf als Schicksal"