“I was firmly in the out-of-sight-out-of-mind camp, and had cogent, unflinchingly honest declarations I frequently made about losing a shared context, and sentimentalism, and the general faint heart...”

“How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?”

“My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.”

“every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with allergies to dairy and wheatcheese and bread basicallybut also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed allergies, I bel...”

“This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.”

“Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.”

“Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but ...”

“Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.”

“A child is reliving millions of years of Evolution from a single cell to a XXI Century Human. This is the most amazing miracle I've ever encountered, and I am truly grateful to the Nature for letti...”

“I would never sabotage you, Mya. He wiped away one of my stray tears with his fingertips. Of course, deep down I did want you to stay, but I had nothing but nice things to say about you. I even sai...”

“Work is my vacation from worry of what to do with my life”

“You have to get hurt . That is how you learn . The strongest people out there , the ones who laugh the hardest , those are the people who have fought the toughest battles . But they've decided long...”

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

“A child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, in sacred moment of conception.”

“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.”