#birth

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#am #any #ashamed #bashfulness #birth

Love the giver more than the gift. ↗

— Brigham Young

#gift #giver #love #more #than

33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#age #birth #bizarre #child #children

The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness". ↗

— Leonard D. Orr

#conscious-breathing #immortality #meditation #new-age #new-age-movement

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery. ↗

— Marsden Wagner

#midwifery #attitude

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it. ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#death #beauty

In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the child of his mother and father, it seemed like something that would never change. Yet look how easily he had lost that rank and privilege! A person's fortune could turn at any time. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#change #fall-from-grace #privilege #change

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#birth #education #gender #gender-realization #upbringing

It’s my birthday, who could be calling me? Probably my clone, wondering why he hasn’t been born yet. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#birthday #born #clone #communicate #communication

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it. ↗

— James Clavell

#samurai #samurai-bushido-seppuku #strength-of-mind #courage