Two plain wooden nesting figures, a larger peach-toned figure beside a smaller mahogany figure, on a peach background.

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Sophocles

Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker portrays sons as the steadying weight that holds a mother in place, the thing that keeps her secure amid life's currents. Her sense of stability and purpose is described as tied to her boys. The line is an admiring generalization about motherhood, not a proven rule.

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