“The skills developed in the body by taking care of a baby are a gift, a way of being in the world, and a way of connecting with all the women—and some men—who have learned these skills before.”
Source: Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm
“Woe is the natural end of life, yet we go on having babies.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Human making is our mission.”
Source: Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
“Human making is our mission, but if you break the very soul of the would-be humans, then there will be no human to raise.”
Source: Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
“Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.”
Source: Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
“She didn’t think of the debt she was repaying, that each of the babies she brought into the world might someday be counted against the babies that had died, by her hand, after the war.”
Source: The Good Muslim
“She felt the urge to tell him more, to explain about the abortions she had done after the war, and that she hadn’t realised until later, much later, that she had racked up a debt she was still struggling to repay. How could he know – he was just a soldier, he had killed as a matter of principle, but the war babies, the children of rape, had been left to junior doctors, the volunteers in ragged tents on the outskirts of town.”
Source: The Good Muslim
“With Ashleigh we had to try forever. But Callie and I .. we were just going to see what happens."
"Babies." I grin at hi because he's a doofus right now. "Babies are what happens, Captain.”
Source: Game On
“you like babies, don't you? he asked...
I have a marginally higher opinion of them than Herod, she said.”
Source: Murder at the Old Vicarage
“Lena walked into the dining room with a plate of pancakes for both Knox and Bea. "Work for this family for fifty years, you'd think they'd have the decency to tell me when they got married. I'm only giving you breakfast so I can make sure you have enough strength to make babies."
"Good morning, Lena. Thank you for breakfast," he said, knowing she was only half kidding.
"Lots of babies," Lena repeated. "And soon.”
Source: Deadly Secret
