Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason…

“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by…

— Piaget

“Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a…

— Jodi Picoult

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable…

— Richard Louv

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

— Barbara Katz Rothman

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

— Grantly Dick-Read

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

— William Gilmore Simms

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

— Barbara Katz Rothman

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so,…

— William Gilmore Simms

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it…

— Simone de Beauvoir

In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at…

— Henry Adams

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were…

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children…

— Jock Sturges

It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must…

— Grantly Dick-Read

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

— Marianne Williamson