On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.
People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
I gave birth to our daughter Coco in Pisa, and it was a wonderful time in all our lives.
The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.
I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
Pakistan's key leaders have succumbed to the assassin's bullet or bomb or the hangman's noose, and the country has seen four military coups since its birth in 1947. Yet the Pakistani polity has limped on.
We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
