Ina May Gaskin Quotes
When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
Quotes to Explore
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The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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Every idea has its time.
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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
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The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.
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Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
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We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
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The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.
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Our power play was really clicking. Lots of skill, lots of speed and lots of experience.
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When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
