"The sacred gift of parenthood is inscribe in the universal words Papa and Mama." - Lailah Gifty Akita

“a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted ...”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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“Love is the beauty of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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“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 ...”

— Shan Sa, Empress

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“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.”

— Ina May Gaskin, Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

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“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...”

— Sophia Newtown

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“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

— William Shakespeare

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“The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.”

— Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life...”

— Janet Evanovich

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