But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
There is a psychological and physical toll from the pressure to recreate ourselves in midlife. To survive as workers, we have to… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Truly, I am a woman of the last minute. When I was pregnant, I organised three different hospitals because I couldn't decide… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I saw this huge billboard that said: 'Abortion Hurts' and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is that for?… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My first child, I think I was completely shell shocked. I was ecstatic but in shock that I was now responsible completely… — Kylie Bax Copy Share Image
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I've probably been the hardest on my dad. I was the oldest girl; I was 12 when they divorced. So from birth… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
People are always shocked to hear I'm an athlete by profession and even more shocked when they hear I'm a fencer from… — Ibtihaj Muhammad Copy Share Image
“Odd that you should choose to be a midwife, having never experienced birth yourself.” In other circumstances the words would have stung.… — Roberta Rich Copy Share Image
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void,… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
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