My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.
Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.
People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.
When we come to the hospital to give birth, we don't come as a Jew or an Arab; we come as a human being.
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
Giving birth was probably the most empowering thing I've ever done physically. I was like, 'Now I can do anything. I can run a marathon... I can run three marathons!'
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.