Menopause, perimenopause, childbirth and breast-feeding can all cause a woman's sex drive to shut down. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. — Margaret Mitchell 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
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how… — Poppy Montgomery Copy Share Image
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
They say childbirth is the most pain women ever experience. Mothers prepare their daughters for this pain by brushing their hair. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute. — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I've found childbirth to be so unique in its ability to completely humble you while also completely empowering you. It reduces you… — Eva Amurri Copy Share Image
Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
“The smooth undulating movements of Bellydance for birth aid a woman's ability to deal with her labour in an opening rather than… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
“He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child;… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability… — Ramesh Lohia Copy Share Image
The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if my husband is going to be there when I actually have the baby. He said the only way… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Personally, I would miss a wedding. I would miss childbirth. I would miss a bar mitzvah just to see me talk at… — Maxwell Jacob Friedman Copy Share Image
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other… — Stephen Gaskin Copy Share Image
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
“They say women forget the pain of childbirth. Well, they are in nature's hand. No hand took mine. I was a body… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
No mother should worry about dying during childbirth in the twenty-first century - and rising maternal death rates in the United States… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
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
Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens,… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
