For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves. – Sheila Kitzinger, The Experience of Childbirth
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes
Being a press secretary is like learning to type: Youre hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and dont realize it. Youre speaking for the president without ever having to go to him. – Larry Speakes