hand that rocks the cradle
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As Desmond Tutu put it in an interview from the film, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”
From Newsweek ● Sep. 24, 2012
It's a truism that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hand that rocks the cradle in the U.S. is getting younger.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hand that rocks the cradle -- and cradles the phone, and sweeps the floor, and writes the memo and meets the deadline -- doesn't have time to reach out and save the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
They also quote that old iniquitous lie, about the hand that rocks the cradle ruling the world.
From In Times Like These by Nellie L. McClung
