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"The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World" is a poem by William Ross Wallace that praises motherhood as the preeminent force for change in the world.[clarification needed] The poem was first published in 1865 under the title "What Rules The World".[1] The refrain of the poem is a commonly quoted phrase.[2]
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- ^ Magill, Frank Northen; Tench Francis Tilghman (1965). Magill's Quotations in Context. Harper & Row.
- ^ Dickenson, Mary Lowe (1904). "Higher Education and Motherhood". The Phrenological Journal 117 (4): 151. "No saying is more quoted than: 'The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.'"
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