“As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.” IfsMenShouldChildrenTwoDoneHomeMotherChoicesPowerfulViolenceHeardArgumentDoctorsProvokingViolence Against WomenAmbulanceStop Violence Against Women Author:Patrick Stewart
“As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.” MenWayLifeFeelsArtLawMotherNaturalHealingCompassionPracticeTeachingPoetSkillsDoctorsSalvationVariousFollowingInnocentTeaBlissRelyNativeInfantGoverningSustenanceWanderersRely UponArcheryNatural Intelligence Author:Miyamoto Musashi
“Twelve years ago my mother gets her cataracts removed. So twelve years ago the doctor gives her these enormous sunglasses to wear to protect her eyes from the sun for 4-6 weeks after the operation...twelve years ago. She still wears them. She thinks they're attractive. She looks like Bea Arthur as a welder.” ThinkingGivingYearsLooksStillsEyeMotherSunWeekProtectYears AgoDoctorsEnormousOperationsAttractiveTwelveHer EyesArthurSunglasses Author:Judy Gold
“I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.” KnowsWorldSaidHomeMotherGrowsHalfMillionsGrowing UpDoctorsDollarsSymptomsMillion Dollars Author:Darrell Hammond
“I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door.” KindWantedMotherFatherSoundBehindsBoysLaughingFiveDoorsDoctorsDressesGlassesLawyerIceChiefsIndianThirtyPocketsChairsPantsCreamHungTraveledStrictStairsCocktailsDrawersClosed DoorsShavingWhistlingCuffsDressersMorrisShaving CreamIndian Chief Book:What I Saw and How I Lied Source: What I Saw and How I Lied
“I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'” IfsKnowsWritingChildrenLyingMotherTurnsInspiringConditionsPleaseDoctorsMy ChildrenMothers DayAsthmaBronchitis Author:Barbara Boxer
“Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.” IfsLifeYearsChildrenEndsLife IsMotherKnownDangerBabyLaborDoctorsIntentionExcuseProtectionScreensMedicalAriseDestroyedInstanceSmokeAbortionPregnancySurgerySectionsSurgeonsComplicationAgainst AbortionUnborn Baby Author:C. Everett Koop
“When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.” MotherBornBeautyHumourDoctorsUgly Author:Rodney Dangerfield