“I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it’s a really incredible feeling. I’m so grateful I get to experience this.” FeelsI CanFeelingsFeetBabyGratefulIncrediblesStartingHeavyKneesSo Grateful Author:Emily Procter
“I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.” LongStoriesIndividualVoiceCommunityLinesBloodStyleCryBabySittingMedicineBonesWideBreadHipsKneesBreastsChairsTouchingPlasticLapSkirtsRobustClansLatinaLong LinesHungariansPocketbooksLatina Women Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.” BodyKidsGirlNamesParentBoysMiddleBabyKneesVoidButtonsBellyPubertyBaby BoyBelly Buttons Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I love to receive babies into this world, so crawling around on my knees in the birth room is my best place, and most often you can still find me there.” WorldStillsRoomsThis WorldBabyBirthKneesFind MeCrawlingBest Place Author:Robin Lim
“A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.” YearsLooksSaidStillsWholeHomeStarsGoneSkyRocksFrontsBabyMetsTownsShiningSevenTrue LoveNineSpotsKneesTake MeCriedEightyAislePorchFront PorchesTake Me Back Author:Taylor Swift