"Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world while discovering her baby; suddenly somebody appears with two clamps and a pair of scissors in order to cut the cord. This distraction is a dangerous interference with the physiological processes."

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Michel Odent

#Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.”
“You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?”
“As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.”
“Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler”

Source : "Admiral Canaris - Chief of Intelligence". Book by Ian Colvin, p. 210, 2007.
“Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!”
“The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.”
“For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.186, Yale University Press

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