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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, read more
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not read more
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has read more
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt read more
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.