“We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.”

“We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for food... We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for love...”

“No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.”

“The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.”

“The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. ”

“We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”