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“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.”
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“She wondered what a newborn felt as it was expelled from the only home it had ever known, pulled from a place of comfort and security into a world that was bright and vast and unknown. Perhaps it was a blessing that no one ever remembered what those first few moments, hours and days felt like”
― The Midwife
― The Midwife
“Sometimes, I realised, the most important thing I could do as a doctor was to be kind.”
― Emotional Female
― Emotional Female
“We shower so much love on babies and children,"she said. "But as we grow up, it stops. No one showers love on grown-ups. But I think we need more love as we get older, not less. Life gets harder, not easier, but we stop loving each other so much, just when we need love most.”
― On Living
― On Living
“Marriages, like dreams, didn't just happen; you had to do some work to get there”
― The Guest House by the Sea
― The Guest House by the Sea
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