Fear Quote by Anita Diamant

“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,…

— Yann Martel

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

— Nick Tosches

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead

— Anonymous

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.

— Simone Elkeles

Seeing what midwives do on a day-to-day basis - you really have this renewed respect for them.

— Emma Willis

When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch…

— Ina May Gaskin

I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.

— Sissy Spacek

“Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives…

— Ina May Gaskin

“Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold prenatal care…

— Susan McCutcheon

“We must always remember that we are only midwives—if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.”

— Diana Athill

I had such a nurturing team of midwives looking after me with my first little girl, and their support gave me so much confidence…

— Katie Piper

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

— Barbara Katz Rothman