“I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet.” FirstsSpiritFeetBabyMetsHorrorApproachDiedShameForgottenWoodsHumanitarianRageAdmireMotiveTemperSheerOwlFluffy Author:Vita Sackville-West
“As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby.' 'Do you think we were together in a past life?' 'Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed.' 'Don't you feel like we're soul...'” ThinkingFeelsSoulHumorFunnyTogetherPastSleepBabyBedMouthsDiedYeahLaysComing OutBizarreDeprivationPast LifeSleep Deprivation Author:Adam Ferrara
“I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.” PeopleMenYearsKindDifferentMotherHouseFourBabyGayDiedRaisedEverydayDrawingBunchAll KindsQueensTake MeMy SisterFour YearsDragDifferent PeoplesEyebrowsGay MenMother DiedDrag QueenGay FriendWaxing Author:Ellen Pompeo
“My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.” WorldCountryStatesAmericaUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesThis WorldBabyBirthDiedPregnancyMy SisterMore MoneyOther CountriesUnited States Of America Author:Robin Lim
“I think the craziest thing I heard, and this guy's not even nominated, he's from Texas...he said there's no reason that women shouldn't carry a stillborn baby to term, and that it's an excuse to have an abortion if she doesn't want to. She should just let nature take its course from start to finish. Literally forcing birth of a fetus that died in the womb.” IfsThinkingWantShouldSaidReasonGuyCoursesTermHeardBabyBirthDiedExcuseAbortionNo ReasonTexasThis GuyWombFetusCraziest Author:Lizz Winstead
“The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.” MenGivingStillsWarJusticeWhiteBehindsWifeBabyDiedCheeksWhite Man Author:Malcolm X
“We shouldn't forget about the over 100,000, in fact some estimates place it in excess of one million, the over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children and babies who've died horrible violent deaths because of George Bush's war.” MenChildrenWarFactsForgetMillionsBabyDiedViolentHorribleInnocentExcessMen WomenViolent Death Author:Vincent Bugliosi
“Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was a baby. So when Rilke was born she named him Sophie and dressed him as a girl until he was 7. And psychologically, the repercussions of that made him the genius that he is. By the time he was 35, he was continuously falling in love with older women, mother figures, spiritual mothers.” ChildrenMadeSpiritualMotherFallGirlBornFiguresBabyGeniusDiedFalling In LoveBizarreSophieRepercussionsOlder Women Author:Laura Marling
“I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died, & the other has eaten the fiddle — so all is peace.” PeopleNextDoorsBabyDiedTwinsViolinFiddle Author:Edward Lear
“I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.” YearsChildrenStillsParentBloodBrotherBabyDadDiedSevenRelatedPilotsAdoptedCousinSeven YearsAirlineMy CousinAirline PilotsBrother Died Author:Gary Numan
“I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.” WantChildrenEndsCareWantedPerfectAttentionBrotherBabyConsequenceDiedRaisesMy ChildrenMassiveCompelledParentalDiversion Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.” ThinkingPlayBodyHandsMovingMotherCoursesLanguageAnimalGriefTalkingGraceImagineBabyDrinkBallsDiedExperimentsMilkHugAgain And AgainTrainersNewbornFluentNewborn BabyDrink Milk Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel