See the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1865, William Ross Wallace, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle:",
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"ref": "1892, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 2, in Children's Rights and Others: A Book of Nursery Logic:",
"text": "We talk a great deal about the strength of early impressions. I wonder if we mean all we say; we do not live up to it, at all events. \"In childish play deep meaning lies.\" \"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.\" \"Give me the first six years of a child's life, and I care not who has the rest.\"",
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"ref": "1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Education and Sex in Man, Woman and Child”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 136:",
"text": "Woman meanwhile becomes the fearless, inwardly relentless, determined positive party. She grips the responsibility. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Nay, she makes man discover that cradles should not be rocked, in order that her hands may be left free.",
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"ref": "1981 Nov. 15, Paul A. Colinvaux, \"Women's Work\" (book review of The Woman That Never Evolved by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, New York Times (retrieved 26 Oct 2012)",
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"text": "President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga . . . quoted Kenyan Bishop Ndimbe's memorable words: \"Train a man, you train an individual, train a woman you build a nation.\" This is the same as saying that the \"hand that rocks the cradle rules the world\".",
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