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
“Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little… — Jamie-Lynn Sigler Copy Share Image
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Mimicking childbirth on 'Grey's' has taken the mystery out of it. — Camilla Luddington Copy Share Image
“Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that when… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Birth is, without a doubt, one of the greatest self -expressive and creative processes we can embark upon in womanhood. I believe… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
“The first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. Da dum Da dum Da… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside… — Philippa Gregory 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
Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
So many words commonly used to describe childbirth-support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, helped, guided-suggest that a woman does not have the… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
“My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
