The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn't perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be.