“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.” WritingWarEndsMotherCoursesGivenClassImagineMonthsBirthSkillsPreparedComplexesNotionNineAbsurdAcquireCompositionNaiveNine Months Author:Mary Blakely
“When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.” KnowsMenWayShouldEndsGrowsMonthsBirthNinePregnantNew WaysServing GodNine MonthsWere Pregnant Book:Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
“It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.” ChildrenHardPainFatherProcessImagineMomMonthsBirthRaisesNineGoodbyeSaying GoodbyeNine Months Author:Michael Franti
“It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.” ThinkingKnowsHeartMovingMotherBornArmsMonthsBirthNineAbortionWombMother LoveNine MonthsAbhorrent Author:Oscar Romero