#birth

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#certainty #committing #delight #evil #found

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#defends #electric #friend #gets #her

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#broken #child #found #given #had

A man is great by deeds, not by birth. ↗

— Chanakya

#birth #deeds #man

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love. ↗

— Billy Crystal

#create #granddaughter #love #made #me

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#birth #birth control #control #hunger #only

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor. ↗

— Ina May Gaskin

#doctor #health #labor #normal #wisdom