"Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers,"

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Source : Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

Barbara Katz Rothman

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“I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.”
“I have yet to meet someone who was successful who was even slightly negative. That comes from a muscle training. You can work on negativity and weed it out of your life. I've noticed that all of the people who acted as if they were going to be gone too soon, were gone too soon.”
“The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.”
“The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.”
“While the world changes, the cross stands firm.”
“O medo corta mais profundamente do que as espadas.”
“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.”

Source : "How Do Our Worst Moments Shape Us?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, andrewsolomon.com. August 01, 2014.
“One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.”

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