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“As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.”

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Book:The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age
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“The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub!”

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Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
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“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.”

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Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation
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“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”

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Author:Francois Rabelais
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“Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde
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“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

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Book:What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”

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Book:Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within
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“There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.”

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Author:Jodi Picoult
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“A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”

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Book:The Conspiracy Against Childhood
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“Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.”

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Book:The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937
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“Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength”

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Book:A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
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