Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
“When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone… — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
Then Jesus introduced Himself to me. Though my birth certificate reads 1983, I reckon I was born in 1999, when I met… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Hannah darted around the enormous room, opening drawers, cupboards, and all the doors, releasing the sashes holding back the drapes, and lifting… — Roberta Rich Copy Share Image
Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health care, for… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize… — Gordon B Hinckley Copy Share Image
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction:… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I started a writing class, not in service of writing a script or writing anything specific. I've just really been enjoying that,… — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It was your body…that danced at your first drum circle; it was your body that gave birth to your child; it was… — Dianne Sylvan Copy Share Image
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Hark the herald angels sing 'Glory to the newborn King! Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled' Joyful, all… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
Some women give birth and then two weeks later look amazing. I don't think I'm going to be one of those women,… — Sara Rue Copy Share Image
“Spiritual birth,” Hewbright added. “Let’s call it what it was. Being born again through a faith in Jesus Christ. Believing that His… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“To manifest means to “make evident,” to express, not to manufacture. And, in this case, that which expresses is itself expressed by… — Robert Wolfe Copy Share Image
Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Why was I born, when will I die? Who can change the day of his birth, who has a say in the… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only,… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image