text: Except that Mary never said that, and never WOULD  have denigrated the mothers around her her, and by extension, motherhood itself.  She had a very special mission, yet was humble and the very model of feminine virtue.   Her name used to be popular, there being a time when young Catholic women emulated her.  Not that many babies named Mary these days.  Suggesting to a young woman that she model Mary would be taken as ludicrous.   That's one reason why, culturally, we are where we are.