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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

Everyone has a past.

Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.