Motherhood has it's marvelous power, and in it is blended pain and joy, at once the
deepest and the most cleansing influence in the world. That it brings joy no one can
doubt who sees the mutual love of mother and child; that there is pain in it all must recognize.
Perhaps its chief grace lies in the fact that it is a ministry in which in a unique degree there is blended purposeful self-sacrifice with the confident expression of love in its purest
quality. Motherhood is the paradox of life; in its fear and its resolution its giving and receiving, at once the suppliant for our protection and the imperious monarch of our lives, it bids men pay their homage to virtue.

From the New York Times,May 10, 1929