“There was a mistake made on the day I was born, when I come to think of it.”— William Boyd, amazon.com
“The night Effie Otcher was born into the musky heat of Fanteland, a fire raged through the woods just outside her father’s compound.”— Yaa Gyasi, amazon.com
“We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."”— Henry Ward Beecher, amazon.com
“How soon that song is learned still amazes me. I heard it from my boy, red and wet in my arms, still corded to the womb. The melody was in the afterbirth still lifting waves across that membrane’s silver skin.”— Matthew Nienow, amazon.com
“The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com