#midwife

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. ↗

— George Saunders

#conduit #damaged #even #get #heightened

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

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#midwife #must #policeman #psychoanalyst

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#i #law #law school #midwife #school

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

I'm falling in love with you. What else do you want?' 'That feeling....like your drowning under the weight of it-love, passion. Like you would die for each other.' 'that's the stuff of nonsense. It's for novels and the pictures. It's not real Jenny. What we can have, that's what's real. A home, a family, a good life together.' 'You think I haven't thought that, tried to make it enough? You are a wonderful man, Jimmy, and I... Everything in my brain is telling me that this is the right thing' 'then what else?' 'my heart wants what it had before.' 'before? What, this... Phantom love?How could I not know? You look at me and there's someone else you want to see. For me, it's just you. So that's it? Your shutting yourself off to everything else because of something you can never have. We could have enough, Jenny.' 'Well for a year, perhaps, before you realised you loved more than I did you. I would hate that. That's why you'll be my friend but never my soulmate. And we both deserve soulmates. ↗

— Jennifer Worth

#old-love #family

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#daughter #feel #her #i #i feel