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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetric-ally once, and by car forever after.
If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.
You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.
I want the evening upon which we lose our collective virginities to be special. I'm no parthenologist but I suspect that Jordana's virginity is still intact. Her biological knowledge is minimal. She thinks that a perineum is to do with glacial moraine.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western civilization is to concentrate upon and increase the solidarity of the family. This solidarity begins with a child at the mother's breast.
I'm married. And pregnant.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.
We make a baby, Sylvie, we do it making love. Not fucking on the kitchen floor.
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.
Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .
The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into thinking of as one for a requisite number of years. We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends
Shift from modern nuclear family to the postmodern permeable family.
You don't have to be married to be whole. As a matter of fact a husband is an add-on, he is not the completion of the equation.
What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?
Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.
Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
Living life as only half humans until one day we meet a woman who completes us, who gives meaning to our pathetic existence and makes it worthwhile, enriching it with her laugh, with her smell, and the taste of her body. Days
Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.
lush and flagitious mistresses. It
...half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning of one's married life. Such struggles [are] generally occasioned by want of means, and often helped to make loving couples stand together all the firmer.
'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day's pocketful of memories, this deft habitual sharing of two pairs of eyes, two pairs of ears. It gave you, in a sense, almost a double life: though never, on the other hand, quite a single one.
The husband and wife? Like that couple that had
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.
Occasionally a matrimonial epidemic appears, especially toward spring, devastating society, thinning the ranks of bachelordom, and leaving mothers lamenting for their fairest daughters.
I am a person who is not mated.
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.
The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual
After the birth of a boy, mothers rested from one moon to the next, but the birth of a birth-giver required a longer period of separation from the world of men.
You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.
A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
A woman can produce what no man can: a child.
It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.
Marriage: a souvenir of love.
Miseries of a birth.
If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.
In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.
So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.
Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
Men marry. Women wed.
Love is nature's way of ensuring pregnancy
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.
The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
You give birth to that on which you fix your mind
As the husband is, the wife is.
Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
This couple, so involved with babies, had never reproduced themselves, though they could have. This was an interesting comment on the whole idea of reproduction.
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy
A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state.
Making babies is the easiest part of marriage; raising them well, the most difficult.
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
Marriage is a bike, not a unicycle
How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!
condition of the woman
true love finds its consummation.
We have had a rewarding relationship, the belly and I.
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
Family ... a group experience of love and support.
CHAPTER LXXI 'MY OWN, OWN HUSBAND
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after
childbirth!
O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!
Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology.
No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.
As the beloved son, I have to claim my full dignity and begin preparing myself to become the father.
It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.
Motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.
How happy a thing were a wedding,
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day
We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
Their chattel status continues in their loss of name, their obligation to adopt the husband's domicile, and the general legal assumption that marriage involves an exchange of the female's domestic service and (sexual) consortium in return for financial support.31
Some would think that it ought to come in the course of nature to a woman of thirty-six, a wife and mother. A little calm, a little quiet within - little chance. Even after childbearing, there is blood in your veins, not milk.
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks - already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
A bludgeon of wives (surely that must be the plural assignation)!
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.
a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier
Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.
In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.
conceived and held up to the angry
I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.
This fathering is a man's second chance at living.
Only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life.
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
The fatherhood crisis is a generator of an incredible dimension of fornication and adultery.