“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” IfsGivingBodyMightHappensImagineBirthBedCapacityLaborPregnancyEcstasyChildbirthGiving Birth Author:Christiane Northrup
“If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.” IfsI CanAbleRightsImagineBirthProtectPreservesPrivacyBirth Control Author:Faye Wattleton
“The thing I've done the best in this world is giving birth to Saet Byul. I can't imagine my world without her” WorldGivingI CanDoneImagineThis WorldBirthGiving Birth Author:Kim Soo-hyun
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.” WritingWarEndsMotherCoursesGivenClassImagineMonthsBirthSkillsPreparedComplexesNotionNineAbsurdAcquireCompositionNaiveNine Months Author:Mary Blakely
“From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.” WantFeelsHelpingLightHappensBlackImaginationWonderImagineBirthOceanPhotographWaveAppearancePrologue Author:Rinko Kawauchi
“It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.” ChildrenHardPainFatherProcessImagineMomMonthsBirthRaisesNineGoodbyeSaying GoodbyeNine Months Author:Michael Franti
“You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with a special guided bus tour highlighting the rise of the crack trade, yet you can hop on a bus in Chicago tomorrow to see the famous locales of murders. I have to imagine there's some wonderful academic book on the sociology of this out there.” BookImagineWonderfulBloodSpecialBirthTomorrowMurderTradeHopsLos AngelesCracksMuseumsChicagoBusDedicatedAcademicSociologyMexicanMafiaHighlightingBirth PlaceCrips Author:Tod Goldberg
“Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.” LooksImagineBirthViolent Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.” PeopleYearsHardFormCommonImagineCrimeBirthYears AgoPrisonBirth Control Author:Dick Durbin