Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea. — Marianne Williamson 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
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers. — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception — Grantly Dick-Read 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
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec,… — Francois Rabelais 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
