#birth

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing. ↗

— Ami McKay

#homebirth #inspirational #life #midwifery #political

It was Don Paolo's birthday and all the people of the village were gathered in the piazza to celebrate him. The band played, the wine flowed, the children danced, and, as he stood for a moment alone under the pergola, a little girl approached the the beloved priest. "But Don Paolo, are you not happy?" she asked him. "Of course I am happy," he assured the little girl. "Why, then, aren't you crying? ↗

— Marlena De Blasi

#inspirational #life-philosophy #home

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#birthdays #children #hate #hated #i

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#film #gave #guy #hope #i

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#ancient #birth #born #borne #forgive

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#ever #first #got #guitar #i

In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter. ↗

— John Stamos

#divorce #does #father #feel #few

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#because #celebrates #everybody #i #july

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#always #birth #homo #homo sapiens #i

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#birth #extent #fairly #sensual #species