All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we spent unfolding inside a woman’s body. Because young humans remain dependent upon nurture for a much longer period than other mammals, and because of the division of labor long established in human groups, where women not only bear and suckle but are assigned almost total responsibility for children, most of us first know both love and disappointment, power and tenderness, in the person of a woman. Adrienne Rich
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An old saying states that "all human life on the planet is born of woman." It's an indelicate way of saying women are responsible for creating all other humans. But it's true, nonetheless. Even animals who give birth to their young are born of the same process. The mother gives birth to the baby and then nurses it for a while before moving on to find another mate.

Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience And Institution

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