For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.
You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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