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“The universe is cyclical, with a process of creation, preservation, and destruction. If we consider the cycles of birth and death, we can see that this process of creation and destruction is the very pulse of the way the universe functions”

Book:A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

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“An appalling double tragedy overshadowed the joy that should have welcomed Alice Lee Roosevelt's entrance to the world on February 12, 1884. The popular, young New York assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt lost both his beautiful wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, and his beloved mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, on Valentine's Day 1884. He gave the infant her mother's name, a wet nurse, a temporary home, and then relegated her to an afterthought. The family turned in upon itself, lost in grief at the sudden and unexpected deaths, too heartbroken to celebrate Alice's birth. It was the last time anything would eclipse Alice Roosevelt.”

Death Birth Tragedy Valentines Day Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt

Book:Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

Source: Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

“Oh, time and again, Mrs. Drinker told me that one had to have a doctor and one had to go to a hospital to have a baby. I was finally persuaded to make one concession: the doctor. But go to a hospital--that was ridiculous. Why? What for? I wasn't sick. In Europe you went to a hospital when you were dangerously sick, and many people died there, but babies were born at home. Would they in the hospital allow my husband to sit at my bed-side? Could I hold his hand, look into his eyes? Could my family be in the next room, singing and praying? The answer to all these questions was “nо." All right, that settled it. I tried to explain that a baby had to be born into a home, received by loving hands, not into a hospital, surrounded by ghostly-looking doctors and masked nurses, into the atmosphere of sterilizers and antiseptics. That's why I would ask the doctor to come to our house.”

Birth Hospital Home Birth

Book:The Story of the Trapp Family Siingers

Source: The Story of the Trapp Family Siingers

“A right to be possessed her, as if she’d just finished crying after being born. How? How to stretch birth out for a whole lifetime?”

Born Birth Crying Being

Book:An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Source: An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”

Poetry Stars

Author:Nikita Gill

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.”

Life Birth Native Rejoice Native American Cherokee

Author:Cherokee Proverb

“And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?”

Funny Birth Pregnancy Natural Birth

Book:Terminal Boredom: Stories

Source: Terminal Boredom: Stories

“But in the bearing of her son Miriel was consumed in spirit and body; and after his birth she yearned for release from the labour of living. And when she had named him she said to Finwe: 'Never again shall I bear child; for strength that would have nourished the life of many has gone forth into Feanor.”

Mother Son Birth

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

“To fully grasp the extent and peerless importance of the sensory intelligence, sensitivity and vulnerability of the newborn is to change not only our understanding of birth, but of humanity itself.”

Love Humanity Birth Intelligence Senses Vulnerability Sensitivity Infancy Sensory Integration

Book:Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“Mother: a humanoid thing blinded by bandages, nurturing breasts hidden, limbs restrained, tongue lolling from its slack mouth, and with no recognisable sweat signature.”

Birth Drugs Infancy Obstetrics Birth Trauma Neonatal Obstetrician Anaesthetic Obstetric Twilight Sleep

Book:Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“Have you ever stood alone in a wild meadow, smelling the rich soil rising over the grass crushed beneath your feet and watched the birth of a tree?”

Nature Birth Trees

Book:the dust of hope: rune poems

Source: the dust of hope: rune poems

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