{"quotes":[{"text":"Freedom is essential to the pursuit of happiness. Freedom is essential to artistic evolution and expression. Freedom is essential to the expansion of the human mind. Freedom is essential to the development and application of basic humanitarianism.Freedom is essential to the creation of an individual's will, motivations, preferences, and unique talents. In essence, freedom is essential to the success and progress of humanity.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["autonomy","birth","freedom","independence","independence-day","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","yearning"],"id":3495,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Animals give birth to children, so that alone is not an argument strong enough to make a human a man. Otherwise goats, dogs and pigs could beat us to the game, because they could do in one go what will take man years to accomplish. A woman can only give birth to a number of kids at a time, in a year, while some animals could give birth to as many as tens of breeds in a year.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["accomplish","argument","birth","time"],"id":3952,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Quinn dropped her hand and avoided Thalcu’s eye. “I . . . I don’t want to kill you,” she said to the floor. “Not if I could save you.”The woman smiled gently at Quinn, her lips curling behind her oxygen mask. “I will not really die,” she said, drawing Quinn’s surprised gaze. She looked at Quinn contently a moment and went on, “Do you know how worlds are born? From the first breath of a star. We are made of starlight. We can not bear to look into the sun, into the thing that birthed us, anymore than we can bear to look upon our parents in the throes of passion. It is our point of origin, and to it, we all must return.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["afterlife","aliens","birth","death","science-fiction"],"id":5002,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.","author":"Nicole Appleton","tags":["giving","birth","easier "],"id":5289,"author_id":"Nicole+Appleton"},{"text":"I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught.","author":"Pascale Petit","tags":["birth","frida-kahlo"],"id":5412,"author_id":"Pascale+Petit"},{"text":"The Kalambo River and Waterfall exemplify life and afterlife: From birth at its source, the river twists and turns to overcome hurdles on its way to enhance the life of others before falling off the edge in death to flow quietly into Lake Tanganyika, while it's mist rises to heaven, freed from the burden of the body of water that held it.","author":"Kamil Ali","tags":["ali","birth","death","dhuriya","initiates","journey","kalambo","kamil","river","tanganyika"],"id":6300,"author_id":"Kamil+Ali"},{"text":"The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...A different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["birth","dreams","force","manifestation","quotes","strength","struggle","surviving"],"id":6870,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"...The total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy uteruses that they must be whipped into shape with drugs in order to have babies.","author":"Marsden Wagner","tags":["birth","pregnancy"],"id":7051,"author_id":"Marsden+Wagner"},{"text":"Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars.","author":"Rivera Sun","tags":["birth","courage","inspirational","life","philosophy","protest-novel"],"id":8794,"author_id":"Rivera+Sun"},{"text":"He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born.","author":"Jhumpa Lahiri","tags":["birth","children","motherhood"],"id":9120,"author_id":"Jhumpa+Lahiri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":565,"pages":57,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}