Matrescence: Quotes
On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
Book by Lucy Jones
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The Dawn of Maternal Neuroscience
'This is unlike any other brain changes I've investigated before. Something very powerful is reshaping our brains.'
Section: 3, Chapter: 6
The Weight of Unsupported Care
'So at the time women are most likely to suffer from mental illness we isolate them inside, expect them to match unrealistic human ideals, judge their every move, demand they get their body back after the violence of birth, silence their lived experience, and expect them to survive on inadequate sleep?'
Section: 5, Chapter: 11
The Value of Care Work
'Care work is hardcore. It is life and death work. It is fevers and risk and birth and illness and screaming and love and transference. It is transformation and hope. It is quick thinking and deep patience. It is resentment and anger. It is sacrifice and gift... It took me to the edge of what it means to be human. It tested my empathy to the limit, it challenged me intellectually, it required me to answer and ask questions constantly, to consider metaphysics and the origins of matter.'
Section: 5, Chapter: 12
Our Collective Maternal Origins
'What kind of world could we imagine and create if, instead of pretending we were thrown into existence, as though by magic, we truly considered our vulnerable, intimate, tactile, entangled, animal origins?'
Section: 5, Chapter: 13
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