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
The hand that rocks the cradle in the U.S. is getting younger.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's a truism that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
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
The war has proved a truism that old saying, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," and also that the burden of war falls upon women.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly
