“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”
A Mother and her Growing Womb
““The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would fight tigers barehanded, climb down cliffs, throw myself in the path of a speeding car, and even do calculus again if I needed to, for this child.”
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