Quote #175715
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Interpretation
The lines elevate motherhood as a sacred vocation whose worth is set by divine, not human, standards. By saying it is “priced of God,” the speaker frames maternal labor and love as inherently valuable—beyond market logic, social fashion, or male authority. The warning that “no man may dare / To lessen or misunderstand” reads as both moral injunction and social critique: it rebukes cultural habits of trivializing women’s domestic and reproductive work or presuming to define it from the outside. The tone is reverent but also protective, insisting that motherhood demands humility, accurate understanding, and respect rather than condescension or control.



