Hamza

Hamza

A learner

Labor

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There is room in the hospital named the labor room. When a woman is giving birth, we say she is in labor, not because we consider that giving birth is a job but because labor has always been associated with immense suffering.

Don’t spend your life in labor.

-André Comte-Sponville

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