“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
“The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.” IfsWorldGivingHeartMeanRealFacesLevelsTalkingStreetsWillingProductsBirthResistanceFighterFearlessNot AfraidTendernessFearlessnessShynessStreet FighterTender Hearts Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It is a romp through dangerous waters, in which passages of hilarity are shadowed by the dark nights of earliest motherhood, those months so tremulous with both new love and the despairing loss of one's identity-to read it is an absorbing, entertaining, and thought-provoking experience.” NightWaterDarkLossTalkingDangerousIdentityBabyMonthsBirthAccountsMotherhoodDesperateThought ProvokingPassagesEntertainingProvokingAbsorbingHaving A BabyDark NightOpinionatedMoodyHilarity Author:Lydia Davis
“Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.” GivingFirstsChildrenBookHomeGivenTalkingHavensBirthLetting GoOur ChildrenYour ChildrenPublishingGiving Birth Author:Alejandro Zambra
“I'm always amazed to hear my more conservative colleagues talking about how they care about life. They're pro-life, but when it comes down to safe work environments that allow for unions, being able to pay for child care, having family leave - they don't care about any of that. That's where I argue that they're not pro-life, they're pro-birth.” ChildrenCareAblePayTalkingEnvironmentBirthSafeUnionsConservativeDon't CareArguingAmazedColleaguesPro LifeChild CareWork Environment Author:Nina Turner
“Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.” MenGivingBornAbilityTalkingWiseRightsBirthEqualEqual Rights Author:Chuck Palahniuk