“Love gives strength.”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “Love is a drama of contradictions.”— Franz Kafka “Remember that you were born with only love and hope”— “I love you as the mother of my child”: the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.”— Suzanne Finnamore