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In the article we see Rich's teenage animus against the maternal parent struggle to be free of his inner first-grader's boundless motherlove.
Frank Rich thinks you should be very afraid of Sarah Palin. Ann Althouse 2008
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Celebrity news is fair game, as well: Almond reads the current "fashion among movie stars to have many children"-as exemplified by Angelina Jolie-as a symptom of a competitive and narcissistic desire for stars to show off their "inexhaustible supply of motherlove."
The New Yorker Eileen Reynolds 2010
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Here is a Mexican woman’s take on the Odyssean tale: a mother looking for a daughter, guided by a Saint’s image on a grime-drenched glass oven door … this motherlove keeps Esperanza from losing her conscience, her beauty, and the purity of her soul.
Esperanza’s Box of Saints María Amparo Escandón 1999
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