You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Baby is baby.

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them

The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.

Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.