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There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.

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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: bl...more

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In paintings, music, poetry, architecture, we feel the elusive energy that moves through us and the air and the ground all the time, that usually disp...more

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I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

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Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love...more

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Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him behind the ears, where he most smells lik...more

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His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream materia...more

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I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madnes...more