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 Copy Share Image
Education is the starting point for any comprehensive assault on entrenched social inequality and the midwife of a truly effective meritocracy. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation,… — Dervla Murphy 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
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with that show 'Call The Midwife'. Although I had to take a break at a certain point in my pregnancy… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver… — Edward Mills Purcell Copy Share Image
The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image