Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.

All children are affected adversely by bullying but gifted children differ from other children in significant ways.

The wonder of the womb is the birth of a child.

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.