Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth. — Nadya Suleman Copy Share Image
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying.. The rest of his life he'll spend discovering why...” — Erik Tanghe Copy Share Image
“Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
There is a part of 'Wonder Woman' inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“You really don’t like your father, do you?” He glowered. “Let’s just say he would have eaten me if my mother hadn’t… — Dave Ferraro Copy Share Image
“Becoming a mother or father is so much more than giving birth to a child. It’s a developmental process that continues for… — Jerry L. Wyckoff Copy Share Image
I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby,… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive… — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“To do it right, you need three people,” he explained. “One to hold em’ up. One to pocket the cash. And one… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of… — Orlan Copy Share Image
“Just like a human foetus, while in the uterus, retrieves and assimilates the components that allow its physical body to become whole… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“See, sharks are natural predators. They’ll eat anything—including their own offspring. Right after giving birth, however, the mother shark’s brain is flooded… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
In 'Birth,' I explore the nature of the new world we are approaching with my business-spiritual model, a new model for a… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
“On first hearing that little voice – as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my soul was… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke 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
“...The premise that birthing, by nature, had to be a painful ordeal was totally unacceptable to me. I could not believe that… — Marie F. Mongan Copy Share Image
“Long before the Gorgon Medusa constellated within the archaic Greek world and was demonized as ugly and ultimately monstrous—with her tongue lolling… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
“Since the orthodox Christian church continued to slip farther and farther toward the belief that sex was evil, the doctrine of the… — Joseph B. Lumpkin Copy Share Image
“The Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
What a difficult time that must have been for my mother, only twenty-four years old, grieving for her mother, giving birth to… — Dorothy Bush Koch Copy Share Image
“I have two problems with hard labor: hard and labor. I prefer soft, and I’d prefer not giving birth.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that… — Dogen Zenji Copy Share Image
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from… — Plato Copy Share Image
“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
“If you can decide to invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebrate you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I know nothing but my open body giving birth to words. Until the pain is over. Until the end of living. Until… — Jeanne Hyvrard Copy Share Image
My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen,… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image