Writer Between Worlds

“One does not give birth in pain, one gives birth to pain: the child represents it and henceforth it settles in, it is continuous. Obviously you may close your eyes, cover up your ears, teach courses, run errands, tidy up the house, think about objects, subjects. But a mother is always branded by pain, she yields to it.”
Julia Kristeva – “Stabat Mater” in Tales of Love, p. 226, Part V