Can the river reject its fish?
Can the mother spurn her child?
Source, in full
Gangā gelī sindhūpāsī (4 MN). Translated by Sarah Sellergren, "Janābāī and Kānhopātrā: A Study of Two Women Sants", in Anne Feldhaus (ed.) Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion (Albany: U of New York P, 1996) p. 222