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...says "You're a terrific parent, too, Dad!" Why in fact should Mother's Day be restricted to parents? It is not. A card by Recycled Paper Products of Chicago has this touching message: "Although you're not my mother, your little motherlies mean a lot to me. Happy Motherish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings, One and All! | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...Certain Pleasure. The portrait adorns the wrapper of this book, which is the third and presumably final installment in the memoirs of the most relentlessly intellectual and ungrand-motherish woman in France. Simone de Beauvoir has no husband and no children; by design, she has denied herself the rewards, or the burdens, of maternity. The smile is unreal, put on, perhaps, for the photographer; she cannot accept or endure the fact that she is now 57. Her mortality has obsessed her for a generation. "Since 1944, the most important, the most irreparable thing that has happened to me is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bonjour, Tristesse | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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