The Titus 2 Homemaker

A friend sent me the following GK Chesterton quote today, and I really like it.

“I can understand how [mothering] might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.  How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about arithmetic, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?  How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?  No; a woman’s function is laborious because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.  I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”