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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most read more
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt read more
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, read more
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them read more
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has read more
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
