Crystal Eastman Quotes
If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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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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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
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I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.
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So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.
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We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
