"In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away."

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Source : Sheila Kitzinger (1978). “Women as mothers”

Sheila Kitzinger

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“If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.”
“Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!”
“Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.”
“We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.”
“Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.”
“I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.”

Source : "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.
“Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.”
“...the title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order...”

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