I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth. — Nadya Suleman Copy Share Image
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive… — Lucy Liu 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
“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Do not blame your parents for not working hard enough to birth you with silver spoon in your mouth because tomorrow you… — Agu, Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
One in five women experience a mental health condition during pregnancy, or in the year after giving birth. It can affect any… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is… — Thomas Armstrong Copy Share Image
“...it's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“You're going to go living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Giving birth to my daughter was certainly memorable, like a slap in the face. I arrived at the hospital in total denial,… — Angela Scanlon 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
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain,… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest things is the act of creation. You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
“Sea horses have complicated routines for courtship, and tend to mate under full moons, making musical sounds while doing so. They live… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Every dimension looks at itself through the eyes of other shapes in the Universe. Only in the senses, and through the senses,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The distinctive trait of the household sphere was that in it men lived together because they were driven by their wants and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“With a detonation that dashed rocks and huge sods of rain-sodden soil bursting in every direction, the ground behind the monastery seemed… — Avalon Brantley Copy Share Image
“1. I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. 2. I am of the… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Giving birth is an overwhelming experience. You feel joyous, exhausted, thrilled, desperate, excited and terrified all at once. — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in! — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation! — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
Better not to cry when somebody died, because it wont give back life but it is reasonable to cry when giving birth… — Redley Copy Share Image