Men and women are not equal, and they will never be, until a man has experienced the labors of childbirth. — Cellan Slarcas Copy Share Image
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
No woman should fear losing her life from pregnancy or childbirth. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes? — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Mimicking childbirth on 'Grey's' has taken the mystery out of it. — Camilla Luddington Copy Share Image
Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“The desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting… — Jennetta Billhimer Copy Share Image
All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“They say women forget the pain of childbirth. Well, they are in nature's hand. No hand took mine. I was a body… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
No mother should worry about dying during childbirth in the twenty-first century - and rising maternal death rates in the United States… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other… — Stephen Gaskin Copy Share Image
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“I have a clear understanding of things, and no stress. A child brings regrets, not clarity. It can open up your eyes… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My understanding of voodoo is that it was important to the people who practiced it because it helped them survive. There are… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. And what’s her reward for… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
