This process began, spontaneously and more or less concurrently, along the Nile in Egypt, the Yellow River in China, the Tigris and Euphrates in ancient Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley in South Asia – places we have come to call cradles
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“You must learn to love yourself and your own company. As for others, there is no guarantee. You have only yourself for certain, until the last breath.”
― The Midwife's Revolt
― The Midwife's Revolt
“Between pain and harm, my mother taught me, lay a vast moral divide. Sometimes one must cause pain to avoid harm.”
― The Midwife's Revolt
― The Midwife's Revolt
“it is more honorable to be kind even if one is not repaid with kindness.”
― The Midwife's Revolt
― The Midwife's Revolt
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