"There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth."

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Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five”, Alfred A. Knopf

Penelope Leach

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“There's a reason why the form was originally silent”
“Questions outlive the answers.”
“I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.”
“There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.”

Source : Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub
“Phil Ramone and Quincy Jones were very close. Phil Ramone was one of the greatest record producers of all time. I don't know if they talk about him enough in the film, but he produced [Frank] Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, all of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney - Phil Ramone was one of the major record engineers and producers.”
“Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf”
“I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.”
“If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling”

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