Years after her sad birth story, Brodesser-Akner works for a major men's magazine, often writing profiles of celebrated white men.
If you're the sad birth lady with your pastel-colored book cover, and you're going around and you're speaking about it, no one ever says, like, you should write a 'Shouts and Murmurs.' " Birth is a matter of blood and sweat and gore and suffering, of life and death...except: Only women can give birth.
"Real estate transactions happen for happy reasons and sad reasons, births certainly are one of the most happy moments," he said.
It was a painful meeting reminding us that we share our children (and how much we wish they were our birth-children), and incredibly sad that their birth mother cannot care for and keep them safe.
I was tired and overwhelmed, sad about the birth I'd had and the birth I didn't.
I was not around in those heady days, but I've done what I can to overcome that sad accident of birth.
In the same issue, Diaz's co-star (and fellow Latina A-lister) Jennifer Lopez opens up to the magazine about feeling sad following the birth of her twins Max and Emme, who are now 4. "I remember after the babies were born, about seven to 10 days in, I was like, 'What is going on with me?' " the "American Idol" judge tells the magazine.
We speculate that the traumatic experiences of having an unwanted abortion, however sad, or giving birth, however violent, have a shorter duration than being victim of an as yet unexplained and thus untreatable illness, which can be construed as a chronic stressor.
Family deaths, family births, sad sex memories.
Those same sad days brought the birth of "repudiation rallies," with mobs throwing stones, eggs and excrement and spitting on the "infamous traitors" boarding those boats because they couldn't stand to wait any longer for the promised island paradise.
The breadth of Griffith's achievement remains astounding -- as does the depth of his racial prejudice, on sad display in "The Birth of a Nation" and several of the shorts.
