For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.
A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
I’d had three great pregnancies. I thought morning sickness was the end of the world, and it’s not until something pretty major happens that you’re like, oh my gosh those were all a piece of cake. I had a pretty large bleed. I thought I was having a miscarriage.
Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?
'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.
This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.
A 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 in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.
I didn't think it was possible at my age, honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy.
At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.
One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.
Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!
If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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