“Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.” YearsBornMillionsRiskBabyBirthLowsWeightDisabilityPrematureHigh RiskHypothermia Author:Jane Chen
“I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.” ThinkingGivingFeelsHeartMayMotherOrderChallengesBreakRiskTeachingBirthMessagesLosingDaughterConvincedDestroyedChainsWho We AreGrandmotherFierceOnly LoveBittersweetMother And DaughterTeaching And LearningLove And TrustIndelibleGreat GrandmotherPrehistory Author:Alice Walker
“Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.” WayGivingSometimesFeelingsCareFormTalkingRiskGroupsProduceBirthIntellectualExcitementHeatUnexpectedFeverInfectionSmall Groups Author:Stephanie Mills
“There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.” GivingSelfVoiceNaturalForeverKnowingRiskBloodBirthCircumstancesIntuitionBonesFleshGiving BirthFlesh And BloodNew Self Author:Susan L. Taylor
“There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.” IfsRiskBirthIncreaseRateGardeningPregnantDefectsBirth Defects Author:Emily Oster
“Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.” PeopleWorldYearsStillsUseChristianReligionDiesJesusMillionsFourRiskIgnoranceBirthWasteOrganizationSpreadNobleAidsDevelopingWasting TimeContrastSecularVolunteerVirginsGoodwillNeedyCondomDogmatismTime And MoneyGreat RiskProselytizingVirgin BirthSub Saharan AfricaJesus BirthCondom Use Author:Sam Harris
“Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.” WorldGivingSoulHelpingRiskJourneyDangerousBirthCrossesPainfulWorking ItThresholdGiving BirthInitiationPriestesses Book:Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul
“Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%.” AgeHalfRiskBirthCancerBreastsPillsSurveillanceInadequateReductionBreast CancerBirth ControlCarrierDetectionIncidenceOvariesOvarian CancerBirth Control Pills Author:Kristi Funk