Baby

Famous quotes containing the word baby:

    “Let’s just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn’t just having a baby. It became a major healing.”
    —Anne Taylor Fleming (20th century)

    “My faith
    is a great weight
    hung on a small wire,
    as doth the spider
    hang her baby on a thin web.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete ... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.”
    —Eda Le Shan (b. 1922)