“When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.” BornEnvironmentBirthSkinsNosesThroatWombLiving OnCanalsBacteria Author:Paul A. Offit
“In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.” MenWorldGivingEnoughRunningHateWomenBirthEnlightenmentConfusionDelusionWomb Author:Frederick Lenz
“See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult'ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt'ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.” WorldEarthPrideBirthLateAdultsTradeIllEnvyRageMonstersPregnantPaleWombAvariceSlothPawnsChaste Book:Quarles' Emblems Source: Quarles' Emblems
“A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'” SaidBornRoomsBabyBirthLegsFlightWombAirlineSouthwest Airlines Author:Conan O'Brien
“We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.” WorldHardFallModernColdBirthExistentialismEmpiresTornWombThrustRoman EmpireModern ScienceCanals Author:Terence McKenna
“When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.” GivingTwoMotherBornExistenceBabyBirthFormerWomb Author:Marianne Williamson
“For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.” MenGivingDoeEvilBornAbilityBrainBirthEqualMen And WomenInjusticeDenyStealingInequalityFairyUnjustWombBorn Free Book:Of Men and Women Source: Of Men and Women
“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.” LifeWellsLongDreamMotherThreeWaterHealingVisionPrinciplesSpecialExampleSourceBirthHolySpringHundredRainTraditionRiversUniversalPatientAncientMedicalParanormalFeminineGoddessSiteFountainWombGreeceSymbolicSpecial PlacesFertilityAncient GreeceRefreshmentsGreat Mother Author:Christopher McDowell
“I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.” BornCitiesNew YorkBirthTrainNew York CityWombWirePipeTunnelsBorn AgainCanals Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.” LooksSoulEndsBodyLastsMotherHoursOur LivesReadyMonthsBirthTenAll ThingsEternityWomb Author:Seneca the Younger
“A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about.” BelieveBirthAnd LoveTreasureChosenDestroyedRelateWomb Author:Terence McKenna
“This is the key to understanding the virgin birth. God's Word is full of faith and spirit power. God spoke it. God transmitted that image to Mary. She received the image inside of her. .. the embryo that was in Mary's womb was nothing more than the Word of God. .. She conceived the Word of God.” SpiritUnderstandingKeysBirthSpokesWord Of GodMaryVirginsWombEmbryosVirgin Birth Author:Charles Capps
“The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.” WantFirstsStillsFactsMightBirthModelsResponseMalesEnvyEstablishmentWombUterus Author:Betty Dodson
“I think the craziest thing I heard, and this guy's not even nominated, he's from Texas...he said there's no reason that women shouldn't carry a stillborn baby to term, and that it's an excuse to have an abortion if she doesn't want to. She should just let nature take its course from start to finish. Literally forcing birth of a fetus that died in the womb.” IfsThinkingWantShouldSaidReasonGuyCoursesTermHeardBabyBirthDiedExcuseAbortionNo ReasonTexasThis GuyWombFetusCraziest Author:Lizz Winstead
“For a lot of people, me included, abortion is murder. And it just becomes clearer and clearer the closer you get to birth. I mean, it's just so - I think if you had a womb with a window, it would never happen.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanHappensBirthWindowMurderAbortionWomb Author:Glenn Beck
“Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.” HumansDifferentMomentsLanguageSoundBirthCombinationWombCrudeLinguists Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“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
“Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken” FirstsChildrenLongFormBrokenBirthClaimsPunishmentAgain And AgainWombSpineBackbone Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson
“This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.” GivingSocialBornSituationConditionsRevolutionBirthGenuineMassiveWombUpheavalUnendurable Book:Why We Can't Wait Source: Why We Can't Wait
“The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” KnowsEyePastLife IsKindnessOur LivesCrimeGoes OnBirthConsequenceBoundsDeedsAll TimeRevelationsPushingImmortalOur FutureWombThyselfTombsKnow ThyselfOur WordsThrough The EyesPast And PresentAtlasImmortal Life Author:David Mitchell
“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
“At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.” WorldNeedsChildrenPersonsMightFacesFormMotherNextBornPsychologyBabyPersonalityBirthFunctionIndependentUrgesConquestWombAbsorbingBodily Functions Author:Maria Montessori
“In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.” MenHumansMayDoeMatterBodyBornHuman BeingsCasesBloodBirthMurderFruitKillingSeedsAbortionForbiddenWombHinderSustenanceDoes It MatterFetusParts Of The Body Author:Tertullian