Actually the world can't smile -- the world is a planet, not a person. And actually the more babies there are, the more polution, and really, if the world had a facial expression, it would probably be one of disgust as it had more and more garbage on it!
Bingo: If you had a sprog, you could share the family change room at the pool.
Simone de Beauvoir dismissed motherhood as, "...'a strange mixture of narcissism, altruism, idle daydreaming, sincerity, bad faith, devotion and cynicism."
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