Motherly love – putting the care of children before every other consideration — is the ultimate intelligence of nature. My own mother saw the world through a rather traditional lens; she was passionately devoted to her husband, her children and her home. And I thought I could improve on that. Raised around the social turmoil and feminism of the Sixties and Seventies, I wanted to go out into the world and do something more important than what I thought my mother was doing. It took me several decades to see the error of my thinking. What I ultimately realized was that my mother was right to see...