the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
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the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
- 揺りかごを揺らす手が世界を支配する。次の世代の人たちが将来の世界を作っていくのだから、次の世代、すなわち子供たちを育てる人の影響は絶大であるということ。特に、女性あるいは母親の影響の強さを指す。
- 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. (D. H. Lawrence, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious, 1922)
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William Ross Wallace の詩 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle より。
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