Abby

“Birth equals create.”
― Ricki Lake, Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience

“Many events plant seeds, imperceptible at the time, that bear fruit long afterward.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

“The landscape of carcinogens is not static either. We are chemical apes: having discovered the capacity to extract, purify, and react molecules to produce new and wondrous molecules, we have begun to spin a new chemical universe around ourselves. Our bodies, our cells, our genes are thus being immersed and reimmersed in a changing flux of molecules--pesticides, pharmaceutical drugs, plastics, cosmetics, estrogens, food products, hormones, even novel forms of physical impulses, such as radiation and magnetism. Some of these, inevitably, will be carcinogenic. We cannot wish this world away; our task, then, is to sift through it vigilantly to discriminate bona fide carcinogens from innocent and useful bystanders.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”
― Paulo Coelho