Protecting the lives of women in childbirth and in their postpartum months should be a common priority. — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily. — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
“Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life. — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more. — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
Men and women are not equal, and they will never be, until a man has experienced the labors of childbirth. — Cellan Slarcas Copy Share Image
“When avoidance of pain becomes the major emphasis of childbirth care, the paradoxical effect is that more women have to deal with… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
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
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
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental… — RZA Copy Share Image
“Birth unites women in the power of oneness; the extraordinary gift we deeply share as mothers. Belly dance for birth reflects this… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
“If our suffering has a purpose, it is infinitely easier to bear than if our suffering has no purpose and no larger… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more… — Janet Schwegel Copy Share Image
According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal… — John Dye Copy Share Image
“There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We live in the least ugly time in history. If you look at back when Beethoven was writing, half the kids were… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
“Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all… — Janet Fitch 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
“Nick and the Candlestick I am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactites Drip and thicken, tears The earthen womb Exudes… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
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