" Babies, I speculated in that peculiar mystical state, are sort of leaky little understudies for God. With each baby the human species gets the chance to break out of the self into the service of something so ‘other’ that the reasons for conditional love can give way to faith in unconditional love… with babies, we get the chance to take one manageable baby step on the long hard path of the saints. "

― Naomi Wolf , Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood