Midwife Quotes · Page 2

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

— Matthew Henry

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

— Billy Wilder

I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.

— Robin Lim

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

— Daniel Inouye

I'm living my dream. If I could do anything else though, I would want to be a midwife, like my father.

— Matthew Morrison

My wife is a midwife, and there's only so many states where you can do that. Texas is a place where she…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

— Helen Varney

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

— John Dewey

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all…

— Judy Parfitt

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

— Sarah J. Buckley

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they…

— Liya Kebede

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among…

— Sylvia Plath

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a…

— Simon Helberg

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But…

— Ina May Gaskin

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the…

— Rush Limbaugh

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either…

— Jennifer Worth

When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than…

— Alice Dreger

I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango…

— Judy Parfitt

There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light…

— Diet Eman

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever…

— Natalie Martinez

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

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not…

— Jostein Gaarder

It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.

— Jessica Raine

I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

— Cher

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

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

— Matthew Morrison

“a midwife’s role was to work with nature, whereas a doctor was trained to seek out its defects and remedy them.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

— Barbara Katz Rothman

I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.

— Robin Lim

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

— Plato

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

— Karl Marx

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

— Grantly Dick-Read

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.

— Stephen Spender

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

— Barbara Katz Rothman

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In…

— William Shakespeare

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own…

— Erykah Badu