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
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of.… — Jane Wagner 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
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again. — Sarah Dessen 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
It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It… — Isadora Duncan 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
Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and,… — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The birthing journey requires us as women to get back to a sense of life basics where our connection to intuition and… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. — Gloria Steinem 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
Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an… — Jessica Mitford 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
The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever… — Natalie Martinez 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
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
