The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the …

Toni Morrison
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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. ✨ Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). Conversations with Toni Morrison, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. ✨ Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). Conversations with Toni Morrison, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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