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“I have a theory that all human babies are born prematurely. Given the human life span – three score years and ten – to be comparable with other animals of similar longevity, human gestation should be about two years. But the human head is so big by the age of two that no woman could deliver it. So our babies are born prematurely, in a state of utter helplessness.”
― Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
― Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
“She was, he reflected, one of his closest friends, in a rather curious, slightly old-fashioned way.”
― My Italian Bulldozer
― My Italian Bulldozer
“That’s what I want, she thought, with the fiercest feeling of wanting she’d ever had in her life. She wanted that look her granny had, that look that told the world here I am, I’m somebody, and here is my life. I been young and old and in between, I loved a man, raised my children, worked, laughed, cried, and, see, even after all that, here I still am. “I’ll be”
― Moon Women
― Moon Women
“Someone noted that in this culture
we worship our work,
play at our worship,
and work at our play.”
― The Power of Pause: Becoming More by Doing Less
we worship our work,
play at our worship,
and work at our play.”
― The Power of Pause: Becoming More by Doing Less
“It’s a disgusting mess we come through to be born, the sticky-wet of blood and afterbirth, mother wailing, child crying … the helpless soft spot at the top of its head pulsing, waiting to be kissed. Our parents and teachers say it’s a miracle, but it’s not. It’s going to happen no matter what, there’s no choice in the matter. To my mind, a miracle is something that could go one way or another. The fact that something happens, when by all rights it shouldn’t, is what makes us take notice, it’s what saints are made of, it takes the breath away. How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that’s made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead … that’s the miracle.”
― The Birth House
― The Birth House
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