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The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.
(T. Berry Brazelton (20th century), U.S. author, pediatrician. Touchpoints, ch. 1 (1992).)
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A baby nurse is one that changes diapers and loves 'em dearly. Get up at all hours of the night to give 'em the bottle and change their pants. If the baby coughs or cries, you have to find out the need. I had my own room usually, but I slept in the same room with the baby. I would take full charge. It was twenty-four hours. I used to have one day a week off and I'd go home and see my own two little ones.
(Ruth Lindstrom (c. 1892-?), U.S. practical nurse; born in Sweden. As quoted in Working, book 8, by Studs Terkel (1973).
Nearing eighty when Terkel interviewed her, she had emigrated from Sweden in 1913 and worked as a domestic. In 1918, she had become a practical nurse specializing in infant care. She had continued to perform housework as well as baby and child care for families.)
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
(Norman Mailer (b. 1923), U.S. author. repr. In Conversations with Norman Mailer, ed. J. Michael Lennon (1988). "The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian," Village Voice (New York, Jan. 21, 1971).)
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A baby nurse is one that changes diapers and loves 'em dearly. Get up at all hours of the night to give 'em the bottle and change their pants. If the baby coughs or cries, you have to find out the need. I had my own room usually, but I slept in the same room with the baby. I would take full charge. It was twenty-four hours. I used to have one day a week off and I'd go home and see my own two little ones.
(Ruth Lindstrom (c. 1892-?), U.S. practical nurse; born in Sweden. As quoted in Working, book 8, by Studs Terkel (1973).
Nearing eighty when Terkel interviewed her, she had emigrated from Sweden in 1913 and worked as a domestic. In 1918, she had become a practical nurse specializing in infant care. She had continued to perform housework as well as baby and child care for families.)
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After your baby is born, guilt can grow into a monster that sits on your shoulder and whispers into your ear, "Mirror, mirror on the wall—who's the guiltiest of them all?" The answer is working mothers. Every time you can't calm your screaming baby, the guilt monster will tell you that if you were a true mom, an at- home mom, you would know what to do. . . . Everytime something goes wrong at work, it will tell you that it's your fault for trying to be a "supermom."
(Jean Marzollo (20th century), U.S. author. Your Maternity Leave, ch. 3 (1989).)
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I went to the bookstore and God was not there.
Doctor Faustus was baby blue with a Knopf dog
on his spine. He was frayed and threadbare
with needing.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Faustus and I....")
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the gentleness of wine in his fingertips,
where do these hands come from?
I was born a glass baby and nobody picked me up
except to wash the dust off me.
He has picked me up and licked me alive.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "When the Glass of My Body Broke.")
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