At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Source: Doctor Zhivago, Ch. 9, Sect. 3
-- Boris Pasternak, (Feb 10 1890-1960), Russian novelist, poet; His novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1958 but aroused so much opposition at home that he declined the honor.