Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers. — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
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
“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if my husband is going to be there when I actually have the baby. He said the only way… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute. — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
They say childbirth is the most pain women ever experience. Mothers prepare their daughters for this pain by brushing their hair. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces… — Hester Lynch Piozzi 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 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
It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child;… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical… — Elizabeth Blackwell 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
“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we… — Sarah J. Buckley Copy Share Image
To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
“Just as a child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, so is grace freely given by God, in sacred… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old. — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“On this one long, blessed night we refused to worry, allowing only hopes and dreams for the future of the human race,… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. And God’s great love is the divinity of birth: the spirit of… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural -… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“Birth unites women in the power of oneness; the extraordinary gift we deeply share as mothers. Belly dance for birth reflects this… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental… — RZA Copy Share Image
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“When avoidance of pain becomes the major emphasis of childbirth care, the paradoxical effect is that more women have to deal with… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife. — Amrita Pritam Copy Share Image
You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
