No cowardice, and no remembering your children, how they were your dears, or how you gave them birth. Instead for this one fleeting day forget that t… - Euripides
" "No cowardice, and no remembering your children,
how they were your dears, or how you gave them birth.
Instead for this one fleeting day forget that they are yours,
and afterward take time to grieve.
Although it's you who's killing them
they were your lovely babes.
And I'm a woman made of sorrow.
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Euripides (Greek: Εὐριπίδης; c. 480 BC–406 BC) was a Greek playwright.
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