Birth Happened Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“A fortunate birth, in other words, is a shock absorber." -The Thought Experiment”

— George Saunders

“I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were…

— Emil Cioran

“What started the ball rolling was a psychological conviction: the idea that something as horrible as these infant deaths couldn't just be random: someone…

— Sean Carroll

“Odd that you should choose to be a midwife, having never experienced birth yourself.” In other circumstances the words would have stung. She thought,…

— Roberta Rich

“Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people? Catastrophe unmitigated. Socialrevolution. The cultured aristocrat yanked out of his…

— E. E. Cummings

“...women giving birth seemed very often to lose any sense of fear or misgiving...exhibiting an absorption that amounted to indifference-simply because they had no…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I had no idea how we were going to figure this out. but women had been having babies since the beginning of time without…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“The scandal of death through childbirth is not an argument for routine medicalised, interventionist birth, though it is often used as an excuse.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's sex at birth somehow holds more sway…

— Kate Bornstein

“Without a single grandparent or parent or uncle or aunt at her side, the baby’s birth, like most everything else in America, feels somehow…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous…

— Emil Cioran

“I haven’t the faintest idea how babies are born, probably because I fainted on the day I was born.”

— Jarod Kintz