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
No woman should fear losing her life from pregnancy or childbirth. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies. — Louise Erdrich 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
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit. — Erma Bombeck 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
I wasn't very good about the pain. I started screaming for painkillers after the third contraction and didn't stop until my daughter… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
War and armed conflict disproportionately affect women and can turn what is supposed to be a joyous and beautiful experience - childbirth… — Philomena Kwao Copy Share Image
O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted! — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“Whose interest does egg freezing serve? The woman's or that of an ambitious, still pretty unforgiving culture that doesn't really ever see… — Randi Hutter Epstein Copy Share Image
Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up,… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“We live in a country where you can electively have your nose broken to reshape it, inject fat from your butt into… — Ann Brasco Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: I salute womanhood worldwide, because women are exceptionally tough for enduring the misery of childbirth. I've cleaned… — Phil Robertson 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
If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
“...among the Aztecs, for example, who had a number of heavens to which people's souls would be assigned according to the conditions… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My sister was a twin, and the other baby died in childbirth, and I was three at the time, and I always… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“Her time has come," answered Miss Lizzie. "That's why I didn't marry Harvey - long ago when he asked me. I was… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer… — Anne Frank 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
“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
“Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But… — Richard Llewellyn 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
“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
“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
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
The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
