Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
My own father flipped out on me when I told him we decided to ditch our doctor and go with a midwife… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always… — Mother Teresa 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
I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn,… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers. — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife. — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
How to you teach someone that a theatre comes about first as an idea, from an individual who has a philosophy and… — Robert Kalfin Copy Share Image
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
