“I tell you to keep going, not because it's easy. Not because it doesn't hurt. I tell you to keep going because there's no other way. To stop is to die. Life is in motion. In growth. In change. Life is in seeking and in finding. Life is in redemption. Each moment is a new birth. A new chance to come back, to get it right. A new chance to make it better.” WayMomentsLife IsDiesEasyGrowthHurtChanceBirthFindingsSeekingRedemptionLife ChangingKeep Going Author:Yasmin Mogahed
“You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)” KnowsShouldMeanArtHurtLike YouBirthFitDressesQuittingChessImmortalityBreastsMuseumsPillsBirth ControlPlaying ChessRetrospectiveBirth Control PillsPasadena Author:Eve Babitz
“Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of pornography for some people, and for others, giving birth. In this case, the eyes become black holes in which the image is absorbed willingly or unwillingly, these images are swallowed up and hit just where it hurts, without passing though the usual filters.” PeopleGivingKindBodyEyeSufferingForceBlackHurtCasesBirthAspectHolesPassingOpeningPassingsUsualIt HurtsPornographyFiltersGiving BirthBlack Hole Author:Orlan
“I think what hinders the argument is when people are afraid of hurting the feelings of racists and people who are genuinely - some of them - out of their minds. They demand to see Obama's birth certificate. They claim that he wants to kill our grandparents with his health care. They want to be able to carry their guns into every public place. Why do we need to coddle these people?” PeopleThinkingMindFeelingsCareHurtBirthGunArgumentHealth CareRacistGrandparentHinder Author:Janeane Garofalo
“She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.” GivingHeartChildrenDoneWantedMotherFallLostHurtBirthMy HeartDesertKneesHurt Me Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.” MenPainHurtEffortBirthTiredInfantSweating Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.” GivingHeartChildrenDoneWantedMotherFallJesusLostLeftHurtFiveBirthMy HeartTwentiesTablesArguingDesertKneesKitchenFourthHurt MePistols Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories