“Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.” GivingKindLittlesWholeBigsSeemsLife IsArtistNextMillionsPiecesCreationParticularBirthGive MeSurpriseInnocentNew ThingsLiving ThingsRefreshing Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“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
“I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a Nation."” GivingJobsEvilActorsNationsBlackPiecesBirthJunkGangstersDefenders Author:Ishmael Reed
“The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.” IfsChildrenSpacePiecesBirthPlanningVaccinesSave A LifeFamily Planning Author:Melinda Gates
“Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter” ThinkingFirstsHumansImportantWholeStoriesBornPiecesOur LivesImpossibleBirthWinterSettingSettingsHuman LifeVidaStringsKnots Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great. ‘When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and “bleat, bleat”?’ I asked. ‘I feel like “bleat, bleating,” but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don’t want to steal focus, you know what I mean?” IfsKnowsWantFeelsMeanMotherFocusPiecesBirthLetting GoPerformancesPaidRewardsScriptsStealingFollyWant MeInvitedWireNestsBuilderYou Want MeDestroyersCrawlingCanalsDo You Want Me Author:David Sedaris
“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.” StatesValuesEasyParentBornUnitedNumbersCitiesBehindsUnited StatesPiecesLandNew YorkBirthRemainsSacredTrainZeroNew York CityRebirthWombWireSomewhere ElsePipeTunnelsBorn AgainCanalsStarting Anew Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.” WayWantGivingWritingYearsDoeHandsAbleEarthOrderChoicesHoursAnswersRoomsStrugglePiecesBirthPaperSittingCome UpOddPensAfter HoursSitting Alone Author:Paul Auster
“Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.” EndsWaterPiecesSeaKeysBirthShapesMetaphorAccidentsLandscapeLionsCrucialBowlsGeographyProteinAnalystsSnail Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. “I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .” SaidTwoMomentsGivenBornHoursHalfPiecesSkyPositionPlanetsBirthGlassesComplicatedDullProfessorsAngleMysticalAttemptingCalculationsImitatingFrowningMidgetTimetablesConsultationNeptune Author:J. K. Rowling