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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When you’re first thinking through an idea, it’s important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly, is hard to do.
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Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.
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It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
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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.
