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“Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth”

Ifs Giving Body Might Happens Imagine Birth Bed Capacity Labor Pregnancy Ecstasy Childbirth Giving Birth

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.”

Sometimes Body Hours Brain Bed

Author:Peter James

“I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.”

Source: 13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers

“I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.”

Heart Long Stills Body Joy Asks Names Lost Sound Women Dark Becoming Bed Breaths Deeper Far Away Deep Inside Hunted Avalanches Becoming Something Long Deep

Book:Refusing Heaven

Source: Refusing Heaven

“Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.”

Body Eye Remember Desire Voice Bed Lays Glowing Trembling

Book:Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Source: Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

“I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.”

Looks Book Enough Body Light Eye Pain Faces Language Willing Bed Areas Dull Hospitals Her Eyes Glances Donors

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Don't talk to me about gravity. When I get out of bed in the morning, I have to be careful not to step on my breasts.”

Body Steps Morning Bed Careful Breasts Be Careful Gravity Talk To Me Don't Talk To Me

Author:Joan Rivers

“When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.”

Body Night Bed Snow Chains Gowns Grease

Book:Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

“As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.”

People May Long Body Cutting Land Crime Cold Bed Dresses Dues Jewels Blanket Splendor Rags Lace Due Time

Author:John Ruskin

“People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).”

People Heart Body Found President Car Bed Victim Tyranny Chiefs Disagree Crash Bullets Seafood Heart Attack Car Crash

Book:Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Source: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood