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If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in read more
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving read more
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found read more
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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.
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.
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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.
