The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store all of the responsibility and none of the authority.
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A stepmother has a hard hand.
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
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The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
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