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Chouette

Book by Claire Oshetsky · 3 quotes · Babies, Birth, Communication

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All Babies Birth Communication Emotions Host Language Logic Metaphor Motherhood Mothers Parasite Poison Pregnancy Reproduction Resentment Rules Self Destruction Speech Survival

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“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible.”

Language Communication Speech Logic Metaphor Rules

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“I wonder how long I’ve been the victim of subliminal messaging from a fetus. I wonder if it goes this way for all pregnant mothers: At first we fully recognize the existential threat that is growing inside us, but gradually evolutionary imperatives overcome the conscious mind’s objection, and the will to reproduce overcomes the will to survive, and the needs of the baby overcome the needs of the host, until the only choice left for us women is to be willing, happy participants in our own destruction.”

Birth Survival Motherhood Pregnancy Host Mothers Babies Reproduction Self Destruction Parasite

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“Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison.”

Emotions Poison Resentment

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