(womb - mercy; in Hebrew, the root R-CH-M is common to both the word 'Rechem' (womb) and 'Rachamim' (mercy, pity).

Background excerpts and quotes, partially written on the painting:

"And the man called his wife's name Eve (chavah), for she was the mother of all living (chay)." Genesis 3,20

"Footprints left on the sandy shore of a South African lagoon…about 117,000 years ago…have been identified as the oldest fossilized tracks of an anatomically modern human ever found…the smallish individual…was probably a woman about 5 foot 4…lived in roughly the same time and place as the hypothetical female known to paleoanthropologists as "Eve", the common genetic ancestor of every person alive today…The hypothetical Eve carried a particular type of mitochondrial DNA, genetic material that is passed only through females. Scientists who measured the range of variation in that genetic material in different populations have concluded that we all descend from a common ancestor of that period." Kathy Sawyer, The Chronicle, summer '97

"Since the Creator Ohrmazd created creation, being of one substance, he caused man to be born of one father, so that creation, being of one substance, one thing should sustain, provide for and help another, and men, being born of one father should esteem each other as their own selves. Like affectionate brothers they should do good to each other and ward off evil from each other." (ZDT - R.C. Zachner The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism NY 1961; The Iranian Component in the Bible p. 213 Appendix 1 )

"Why was man created alone? To teach you that if one destroys but one soul, it is as if he destroyed an entire world, and if one saves but one soul, it is as if he saved an entire world." Mishnah, Sanhedrin 35, a bit modified to include all humanity rather than Jews only (Sefer Ha'agada, p. 14 in English; p.11 in Hebrew)

"For in every one there is actually one part of his fellow man, and when one man sins he injures not only himself but also that part of his fellow man which is in him…and therefore a man should want his fellow man's happiness and honor as much as his own, because he really is himself, and that is why we were commanded "love thy neighbor as thyself". Moshe Cordovero, Tomer Dvorah, p. 4-5 (my translation based on Sholem's)

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath; it is twice blesst;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes;
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 5, 1.