No woman should fear losing her life from pregnancy or childbirth. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
Menopause, perimenopause, childbirth and breast-feeding can all cause a woman's sex drive to shut down. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
It's still one of my biggest fears, childbirth, but I'll definitely, definitely want a baby some day. — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens,… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control… — Michel Odent 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
Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“I had no idea how we were going to figure this out. but women had been having babies since the beginning of… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore… — Thoraya Obaid Copy Share Image
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource,… — Diana Gabaldon 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
I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in… — John Steinbeck 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
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
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Birth is experiential. You have to experience it to fully know it. An exercise such as Bellydance for birth embraced during pregnancy… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child. — Gertrud von Le Fort Copy Share Image
