The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly calm. – Isak Dinesen
The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea. – Isak Dinesen
The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly calm. – Isak Dinesen
The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea. – Isak Dinesen
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. – Isak Dinesen
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. – Isak Dinesen
The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby. – Ashley Montague
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. – Karen Armstrong