“No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.” HouseBabyLaughterLapNo Love Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
“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
“You don't take your newborn baby, put that baby on your lap, and say, "Now listen, kid, you were born in sin, you're not worth anything, and you've got to pray for mercy." That's not going to raise a healthy adult. And that's what we do Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.” KidsBornSinBabyPrayingHealthyAdultsMercyRaisesSundayLapNewbornNewborn BabyPray For Me Author:John Shelby Spong
“This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.” LightHeavenStarsSkyBabyEarsHolesGrandmotherLapGrandmaWhispering Author:Rick Bragg