“If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.” IfsMenGivingBookWould BeMonthsBirthPeriodsGestationGestation Period Author:Kevin O'Leary
“The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.” PeopleWantChildrenLittlesSaidBookBirthChloeCertificatesFlairBirth Certificate Author:Chloe Sevigny
“I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.” GivingWritingBookBirthUrgesGoing AwayPregnancyPregnantElephants Author:Stephen Fry
“The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.” BookReaderBirthCost Author:Roland Barthes
“Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.” WayGivingBookDonePaintingRevolutionBirthOriginalsBunchBreadEverlastingJuiceTobaccoCarrots Author:Paul Cezanne
“I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'” IfsMeanBookHandsBabyBirthMy BabyCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:Vicky Hartzler
“I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.” KnowsWantShouldTryingBookSelfHelpingTodayTogetherWishSupportPiecesMomBirthStandardsDeserveEmpowermentLaborFoundationSacredLaysMemoirMake SenseGentlePregnancyDozenPregnantSelf KnowledgeJournalEnlighteningHolisticWere Pregnant Author:Mayim Bialik
“Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.” GivingHeartBookSchoolFunnyGirlHouseLeftSexCommonBoysFailingSonBirthAmbitionHumorousPartnersCommon SenseFancyGloriousBreastsAmbitiousAlliancesStirringBoy And GirlGiving Birth Author:Charles Dickens
“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.” DoeBookSoulCountryBodyCultureMoneyKnownTeacherBirthIntellectualTownsMadLibraryFolksCirclesDesertGradesVillageClutchScholarlyOur TownCrazeBooks And Music Author:Rebecca Harding Davis
“In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.” TwoBookSpiritualOrderGoalPathShareBirthEssentialsConnectionsSpheresTraveledPhilanthropicNew Books Author:Shari Arison
“I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead” KnowsMenBookReadingSecretStudySuccessfulDoubtMagicInspireBirthTrainingDoctorsRaisesPatientGrantedHospitalsOne ManDeniedToo ShortRapidsDoctor WhoBook ReadingSecret To SuccessGood Doctors Author:Axel Munthe
“What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.” FirstsKindBookBigsStuffClearHappenedMediaTelevisionBirthMassProgramInnovationPressesWavePornographyPrintingThrillersMass MediaPrinting PressNewtsWasteland Author:Esther Dyson
“Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.” ChildrenBookDiesHouseGivenBirthTablesCookingSevenNewspapersNineThirtyKitchenTomsUnclesCabinsAbolitionistKitchen TableMendingUncle Tom Author:Sophy Burnham
“Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your birth and is inescapable. There are choices, accidents, hints and wrong paths, and the ego you, or whatever you call yourself, is a factor in all this. But there is still this other factor that keeps calling. At some moment, people turn, in despair or when they are unable to go any longer on a certain route, and this inner voice says, "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you to turn to me for a long time."” PeopleLongStillsBookMomentsLife IsCertainTurnsChoicesWaitingVoicePathWrittenBirthCallingEgoDespairLong TimeAccidentsFactorsRoutesLong LifeHintsInner VoiceWaiting For YouPredestinedWrong PathBook Of Life Author:James Hillman
“Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in her body and gave birth to me out of her desire but washed her hands of me after giving birth to me as a poet.” GivingWritingBookBodyHandsMotherDesirePoetBirthCaptureGiving Birth Author:Kim Hyesoon
“You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with a special guided bus tour highlighting the rise of the crack trade, yet you can hop on a bus in Chicago tomorrow to see the famous locales of murders. I have to imagine there's some wonderful academic book on the sociology of this out there.” BookImagineWonderfulBloodSpecialBirthTomorrowMurderTradeHopsLos AngelesCracksMuseumsChicagoBusDedicatedAcademicSociologyMexicanMafiaHighlightingBirth PlaceCrips Author:Tod Goldberg
“The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).” YearsBookEndsJobsDealsCuttingMaterialsBirthYeahObligedJuniorsBlogsPizzaJunior High Author:Jason Mulgrew
“I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured the book like one of her stripteases: revealing a peek of shoulder, then a glimpse of knee, pulling back a bit before you go a bit further, until all is revealed at the end.” BookEndsStoriesWould BeBitsBirthRoseIllShouldersNarrativeKneesConventionalPullingGlimpseRevealingGypsy Author:Karen Abbott
“Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.” GivingFirstsChildrenBookHomeGivenTalkingHavensBirthLetting GoOur ChildrenYour ChildrenPublishingGiving Birth Author:Alejandro Zambra
“In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.” YearsTwoBookDreamSuccessfulSonBirthPeriodsOrganizationSellingAdministrationBarackNightmareTwo YearsPublishingJoiningLaunchingDreams Came TrueSelling BooksSuccessful Organizations Author:Van Jones
“I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we want, pick up and not just read books but actually understand them. This level of education is very rare throughout history, so we shouldn't take it for granted.” ThinkingWantHumansBookLevelsPracticeBirthPicksGrantedFortunateCrucial Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed to the hospital. I had an emergency cesarean and in that moment, in the emergency room, I felt my grandmother come to me. She was with me and when my daughter was born, instead of naming her Hailey, I named her Lucy after my grandmother. Hailey lives in the pages of my books.” GivingBookMomentsFeltBornRoomsBirthPagesDaughterDiedGrandmotherMy DaughterThat MomentHospitalsPregnantMy GrandmotherEmergenciesLucyGiving BirthEmergency RoomCesareanHailey Author:Nancy Grace
“We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.” BookIdeasForceStruggleEventsBirthManifestBursting Author:Michel Foucault
“Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.” IfsGivingBookMomentsEyeEarthPurposeNamesPathAirFieldsFlowerBirthLoversBreathsTrackFollowingLove LifeBroadsWornWiserHer EyesClosingPilgrimDeep BreathEnchantmentSuccessorsExpanse Author:Boris Pasternak
“In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.” HumansChildrenDoeBookWarFactsHomeBigsPainTogetherSufferingFightingRaceStruggleGoneFrontsBirthHeroMiseryRewardsEndureSoldierIllnessHuman RaceCourageousChildbirthContinuationWar Hero Author:Anne Frank