I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
“We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers. — Barbara Katz Rothman 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
But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's… — Bill Hicks 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 desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting… — Jennetta Billhimer Copy Share Image
Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its… — Elizabeth Noble 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
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I had no idea how we were going to figure this out. but women had been having babies since the beginning of… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore… — Thoraya Obaid Copy Share Image
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Birth is experiential. You have to experience it to fully know it. An exercise such as Bellydance for birth embraced during pregnancy… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Death is like giving birth. Birth can be painful. Sometimes women die from giving birth. However, when the baby is born, all… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. And what’s her reward for… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It's still one of my biggest fears, childbirth, but I'll definitely, definitely want a baby some day. — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
