“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.” IfsThinkingGivingFeelsChildrenGivenAbilityCreativePsychologyBirthFemaleUrgesLinked Author:Zoe Kazan
“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.” PainFormWaitingAbilityHappenedBirthPatientUncertaintyTensionSomething NewEnduranceWillingnessUnfoldingCoexistUnknowing Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.” LifeGivingDoeSeemsFormSuccessValuesWinningAbilityQualityFateAirPositionDependsBirthGreat ThingsSuccess In LifeEminenceDeference Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.” MenGivingDoeEvilBornAbilityBrainBirthEqualMen And WomenInjusticeDenyStealingInequalityFairyUnjustWombBorn Free Book:Of Men and Women Source: Of Men and Women
“Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.” IfsWayGivingReasonUseNaturalAbilityBirthLet MePhilosophicalCharacteristicsInnate Author:Jostein Gaarder
“[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice.” PeopleSoulCountryYoungEnergyNationsJusticeAbilityMoralPrinciplesVirtueBirthConformZealStatesmenVigorGreat AmericanMoral Principles Author:Alan Keyes
“Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear the day their parents kill. My mum killed a guy, at my wedding. So I can pretty much check that off. But, she's my mum. And no matter what she did I just can't walk away from her. She gave me birth. She gave me love. She gave me the ability to make a cigarette fire look like it was started by the hot water heater.” PeopleLooksI CanMatterGuyDiesParentWaterAbilityWalksFireBirthNormalHotNo Matter WhatChecksMumCigaretteScrewed UpHot Water Author:Christopher Titus
“We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always be known to our intellects. Nothing happens randomly. And at the same time, we have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.” SoulHappensAgePurposeOrderAbilityPowerfulKnownBirthCircumstancesHealthyIntellectThings HappenChosen Author:Christiane Northrup
“I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.” PeopleWayWantTurnsAbilityBrainAwarenessBirthRaisesLike MeDisabilityPeople With Disabilities Author:Susan Boyle
“most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.” MenMeanWealthAbilityBirthMen And Women Author:Pythagoras
“Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.” MenGivingBornAbilityTalkingWiseRightsBirthEqualEqual Rights Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the millions, I, too, was potentially everything at birth. I, too, was stunted, narrowed, warped, by my environment, my outcroppings of heredity. I, too, will find a set of beliefs, of standards to live by, yet the very satisfaction of finding them will be marred by the fact that I have reached the ultimate in shallow, two-dimensional living — a set of values.” ThinkingTwoMatterFactsValuesBeliefRealizingAbilityExistenceMillionsEnvironmentSeaBirthFindingsStandardsUltimateSatisfactionDefinedLive ByShallowHeredity Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsShouldTryingMindBelieveMadeHardFormParentAbilityOpinionTaughtBirthShapesEmptyDetermineDenyConvincedTreatedPerceiveCurseAshamedFedsFreakUninformedNarrow MindsBirth Parents Author:Alyson Noel
“My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, `Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.” IfsGivingSaidHappensAbilityGoneMomBirthPleaseMy MomHopefullyAthleticGiving BirthAthletic AbilityCesarean Author:Britney Spears