Gestation Quotes

“She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year

“Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman—a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy—a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“Creating something new was not a process of building or forcibly making, but of gestation. While the world was dominated by masculine notions of construction, my work was a silent, mysterious drawing together. I knit you together in your mother's womb, someone once said. The words echoed through history until someone else penned them on parchment in the poetry of the Psalms. The verse speaks of a God who weaves something new as cells split and divide and multiply in the dark and cavernous space inside us. Artists and writers know this place--a secret, soft cave of impulse and intuition.”
― Emily M.D. Scott, For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion in a Shattered World

“MAMA DESERVES AN ANGEL CAKE, BUT SHE GESTATE”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch