In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.
Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.
To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.
When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.