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“My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.”

Children Facts Views Birth Nine Birth Control

Author:Robert Kennedy

“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.”

Writing War Ends Mother Courses Given Class Imagine Months Birth Skills Prepared Complexes Notion Nine Absurd Acquire Composition Naive Nine Months

Author:Mary Blakely

“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.”

Children Book Dies House Given Birth Tables Cooking Seven Newspapers Nine Thirty Kitchen Toms Uncles Cabins Abolitionist Kitchen Table Mending Uncle Tom

Author:Sophy Burnham

“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.”

Knows Men Way Should Ends Grows Months Birth Nine Pregnant New Ways Serving God Nine Months Were 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.”

Children Hard Pain Father Process Imagine Mom Months Birth Raises Nine Goodbye Saying Goodbye Nine Months

Author:Michael Franti

“I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.”

Years Firsts Bigs Kids Wanted School Left Careers Products Birth Daughter Bills Nine Consumers Ran Division Microsoft Nine Years Chunks Business School

Author:Melinda Gates

“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.”

Thinking Knows Heart Moving Mother Born Arms Months Birth Nine Abortion Womb Mother Love Nine Months Abhorrent

Author:Oscar Romero