“One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the young woman from a nearby village, who had been hired to baby sit newborn twins, suddenly said after two weeks of work: 'I'm sorry, this is too much work, I'm going to try applying for call center jobs. The pay is better.'” TryingSaidTwoHomeJobsYoungHousePayToo MuchWeekBabySorryEnormousVillageTwinsYoung WomenI'm SorryTwo WeeksNewbornToo Much WorkBangaloreCall Center Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.” FeelsShouldTryingMayFeelingsTurnsEmotionCasesSadnessLonelinessCryTearsBabyResponseRageFamiliarFeel GoodImpulseLoudWorking ItVirtuousTwinsTowersExploitsPuppyDrainsKitschGenericSpecificityWellspringSept 11Twin Towers Author:Manohla Dargis
“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
“I had twins, so it was really uncomfortable [to sleep], because you lay on one side, and there's a baby, and you lay on the other side and there's a baby. So I had a really hard time with it.” HardSidesSleepBabyLaysUncomfortableHard TimesTwins Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Lemurs are good parents but they do it in different ways. I originally studied father care. I was very interested in that and we saw that a lot of these animals that lived in pairs and the father wasn't doing anything at all for the first month. But then suddenly, when the baby got to be a certain weight then the dads chipped in and started carrying the babies which was very nice. And then if there was twins or triplets then they helped.” IfsWayFirstsDifferentCareCertainFatherParentAnimalSawsNiceBabyMonthsDadWeightDifferent WaysPairsTwinsVery NiceGood ParentTripletLemurs Author:Patricia Wright
“I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.” LittlesFeelingsBabyPaperExcitedTwinsSpectacularMaidsScrap Author:Al Pacino
“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
“Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.” KnowsLostBabyTwinsPrematureHorrific Author:Sherri Shepherd
“Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879” MindLongRealDifferencesBabyAmountPrayingSpeechPermanentSufficientTwinsRiotInsurrectionTriplet Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.” IfsYearsChildrenMightFacesGirlFoundGivenRoomsBoysMorningNew YorkBabyBirthPaperPagesAccountsMurderCoffeeCupsPoundsArticlesMexicoTwelveTwinsSteamTaxiOhioThirteenSeventeenCoffee CupDiningReviveNew BabyDining Rooms Book:The Magic of Shirley Jackson Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson