She says-- "The moment a child is born into the world, a mother's duties commence; and of all those which God has allotted to mortals, there are none so important as those which devolve upon a mother.
More feeble and helpless than any thing else of living creatures is an infant in the first days of its existence--unable to minister to its own wants, unable even to make those wants known: a feeble cry which indicates suffering, but not what or where the pain is, is all it can utter.

But to meet this weakness and incapacity on the part of the infant, God has implanted in the heart of the mother a yearning affection to her offspring, so that she feels this almost inanimate being to be a part of herself, and every cry of pain acts as a dagger to her own heart.
And to humanity alone, of all the tribes of animated beings, has a power been given to nullify this feeling.

Beast, bird, and insect, attend to the wants of their offspring, accordingly as those wants require much or little assiduity.

But woman, if she will, can drug and stupefy this feeling.

She can commit the charge of her child to dependants and servants, and need only to take care that enough is provided to meet that child's wants, but need not see herself that those wants are actually met.
But a woman who does this is far, very far, from doing her duty.