when your child is born, you know that of all the lives you might have lived, only this one was ever really possible.

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.

Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.

I was famous from birth

birth pangs of a process.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.