Childbirth Quotes

“The wonder of the womb is the birth of a child.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!

— Alex Gaskarth

“In childbirth grief begins.”

— Euripides

PREPARED CHILDBIRTH: A contradiction in terms.

— Nikhil Saluja

It turns out childbirth is really... messy.

— Ryan North

I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.

— Robin Lim

“Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.”

— Peggy Vincent

“Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.”

— Philippa Gregory

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

— Bruce Willis

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

— George Eliot

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

— Robin Lim

No woman should fear losing her life from pregnancy or childbirth.

— Raphael Warnock

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

— Louise Erdrich

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

— Billy Joel

Mimicking childbirth on 'Grey's' has taken the mystery out of it.

— Camilla Luddington

“On this one long, blessed night we refused to worry, allowing only hopes and dreams for the future of the human race,…

— A.B. Shepherd

my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

— Joan Rivers

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural -…

— Danica McKellar

“Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. And God’s great love is the divinity of birth: the spirit of…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in…

— Jane Wagner

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

“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

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

“Yeah, women could go on all they liked about how painful childbirth was. Eventually most of them thought about having another baby.…

— Evie Hunter

“Why did I not know that (child) birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?...Until you are the…

— Anita Diamant

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying…

— Erica Jong

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever…

— Natalie Martinez

(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and…

— Amitav Ghosh

“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

It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man…

— Jean Marzollo

“Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But…

— Richard Llewellyn

“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

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

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer…

— Anne Frank

One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up…

— Elif Batuman

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

“He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things…

— Taiye Selasi

The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection.…

— Russell M. Nelson