->When a man believes he may die, he wants to leave something of himself behind. Whe a woman believes her man may die, she wants that part of him desperately. The result is a great many babies born during wars. It's illogical, given the hardships that comes if the man does die, or the woman, but the human heart is seldom logical.
-->-- '''Meilyn''', ''[[Literature/TheWheelOfTime New Spring]]''

->''The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,\\
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,\\
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:\\
Yet this abundant issue seemed to me\\
But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit;''
-->-- '''Creator/WilliamShakespeare''', "Sonnet 97"
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