"Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal."

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Source : Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.84, Greenwood Publishing Group

Henci Goer

#Oxytocin Quotes #Progress Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Peopleâ€™s souls are like gardens. You canâ€™t turn your back on someone because his gardenâ€™s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.”
“I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.”
“From every ending comes a new beginning.”

Source : Lurlene McDaniel (2012). “The End of Forever”, p.4, Laurel Leaf
“Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.”
“We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.”
“And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.”

Source : Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I think the best and most we can do for ourselves is to find the thing we love to do, and then do it as if our very life depended upon doing it.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'”

Source : "The Chess Companion". Book by Irving Chernev, 1970.

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