Episiotomies Gone Quotes & Sayings

This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. — James Baldwin

But they were her parents! Putting up with all of her crap was their official job - they couldn't wriggle out of it! She tried to swallow the lump forming in her throat. How could they do this to her? — Gina Damico

Saimun pondered. How come that when something is difficult to get or you don't have it, and you just get a chance to taste it for a moment, a small matter can become so big, doubling, trebling, growing ever larger? This morning one kretek cigarette dominated his whole soul. As if his life depended on one cigarette and if he could get that cigarette his life would be prolonged, as it were, for ever. One cigarette could fulfill his existence. — Mochtar Lubis

I can barely turn on my computer! — Jack Nicklaus

Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country the UK, or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves. — Nicky Oppenheimer

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success. — Francis Bacon

I'm sorry if i say i need you. But i don't care i'm not scared of love. Cause when i'm not with you, i'm weaker. Is that so wrong? Is it so wrong? That you make me strong — One Direction

Passions change, politics are immutable. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Where the techno-medical model of birth reigns, women who give birth vaginally generally labor in bed hooked up to electronic fetal monitors, intravenous tubes, and pressure-reading devices. Eating and drinking in labor are usually not permitted. Labor pain within this model is seen as unacceptable, so analgesia, and anesthesia are encouraged. Episiotomies (the surgical cut to enlarge the vaginal opening) are routinely performed, out of a belief that birth over an intact perineum would be impossible or that, if possible, it might be harmful to mother or baby. Instead of being the central actor of the birth drama, the woman becomes a passive, almost inert object - representing a barrier to the baby's eventual passage to the outside world. Women are treated as a homogenous group within the medical model, with individual variations receding in importance. — Ina May Gaskin

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. — Alan Perlis

He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course, because he was perfect. — Cora Carmack