“[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.” WayRealGovernmentActionTogetherPurposeBrainFiveMilitaryDangerBabyInternetHighestEmpathyRaisesActivismSensesCellsCorporateOnlineChemicalsEmailConfusingFive Senses Author:Gloria Steinem
“We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.” HumansWellsSoulMomentsBodyHandsMotherHuman BeingsBrainBabyGlorySmellMagnificentSunriseSweetnessWrinkles Author:Marion Woodman
“[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.” BrainFoodBabyBirthCivilizationShapesCellsChocolateShellsPeanutsPlacenta Author:Cynthia Heimel
“Science tells you love is just a chemical reaction in the brain, Let me be your Bunsen burner baby, let me be your naked flame!” Love IsBrainBabyLet MeReactionsNakedFlamesChemicalsChemical Reactions Author:John Otway
“I'm the only one to separate siamese twins.The only one to operate on babies while they were still in mother's womb, the only one to take out half of a brain.But I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation.” ChildrenStillsMotherFightingNextBrainHalfGenerationsWillingBabyPicksOur ChildrenHopefulTwinsWombNext GenerationBaton Author:Benjamin Carson
“The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect with as babies. It is the focus of our attention in our relationships with each other. The face and the human figure express all we are. Everything else - architecture, art, even landscape - we usually understand in relation to us.” HumansArtTwoFacesAttentionBrainFocusFiguresBabyRelationArchitectureLandscapeOur RelationshipDotsHuman Faces Author:Dave McKean
“The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.” IfsHumansHeartSoundBrainBloodWeekWillingBabyMajorityCellsCodeAbortionOrgansCleaningThumbsFluidRespondingLiverKidneysFingerprintsUltrasoundsBlood Cells Author:John Piper
“I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.” LittlesCountryFoundLanguageGrowsRoomsBrainCasesBabyOne DayExtrasExposedSaladUncommonForeign LanguageMidwest Author:Michael Moore
“I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.” KnowsStillsEnoughEyeBrainStepsBabyPressesRefuseTinyToesEvery StepLodgesSplintersEvery Step You Take Book:Time of My Life: A Novel Source: Time of My Life: A Novel
“When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.” PeopleThinkingWritingIdeasDifferentShowsActionBrainBabySceneEatingTrainAvailableObservationPreparingNotebookSubwayYogurtTripping Author:Mike Birbiglia
“I never felt inspired to write this book [ I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?], like I did with the cat or dog book; I felt compelled. At the time (May 1999), I was planning to write and illustrate an altogether different memoir, a book about my decision whether or not to have a baby.” WritingMayBookDifferentFeltDecisionBrainDogBabyCatInspiredExcusePlanningMemoirSurgeryCompelledBrain Surgery Author:Suzy Becker
“Babies have not yet chunked anything. They aren't doing any high level thinking. All they're doing is sucking in all the data they experience in the world around them, and remembering it, raw. It's basically what extreme savants have happen in their brains.” ThinkingWorldHappensRememberLevelsBrainBabyExtremesDataHigh LevelSavants Author:Kevin Maney
“A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.” UseBrainBabyFinePaperTrainInstinctIntuitionGentlemanSmarterFoldsCrowded Book:On the contrary Source: On the contrary
“The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'” GivingTwoBrainImpossibleBabyProgramTasksMalesMotherhoodDrySoftwareCleaningDownloadsDry Cleaning Author:Allison Pearson
“Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.” DoeHomeLanguageAnimalBrainConsciousnessBabyDependsSpeechPatientReactionsDamageRobots Author:Steven Pinker
“A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.” KnowsEarthBrainBabyExperienceScarecrowWizard Of Oz WizardWonderful Wizard Of OzTin Man Book:The Wizard of Oz Source: The Wizard of Oz