If you want to know the feeling, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head. – Carol Burnett, about labor pain, quoted in Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
Miscarriages are labor, miscarriages are birth. To consider them less dishonors the woman whose womb has held life, however briefly. – Kathryn Miller Ridiman, Midwifery Today, 1997
When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest, and so forth, I switch off quite early. – Christopher Hitchens
I put the copy of A Christmas Carol that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the Christmas Spirits. I plan to read it to my grandson. – Whitley Strieber
