Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman. — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth. — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife. — Daniel Inouye Copy Share Image
I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife. — John Dewey 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
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
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
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
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
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
What I've learnt is that being a midwife is not a job about cute babies. And as a maternity care assistant there's… — Emma Willis Copy Share Image
“ Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet . Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“I know now that the Spirit is trying to birth something in my life when I find myself craving silence and darkness,… — Sarah Bessey 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
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
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid… — Michel Odent 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
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
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
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
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
The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife. — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make. — Helen Varney Copy Share Image
