A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman. — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action -… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make. — Helen Varney Copy Share Image
Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
