"Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it."

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Source : Rebecca Walker (2008). “Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence”, p.34, Penguin

Rebecca Walker

#Growing Up Quotes #Want Quotes #Determined Quotes

“If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.”
“What do you mean she left me the embryos? I'm supposed to get the cat.”

Source : Susan Mallery (2010). “Finding Perfect”, p.7, HQN Books
“When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.”
“Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.”
“Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.”
“Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas .”
“It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,”
“After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.”

Source : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.150

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