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Birth Quotes by Michel Odent
- I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon…
- Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother…
- Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home.…
- When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of…
- ...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.
- The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if they…
More Birth Quotes
- The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be… — David Attenborough
- Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. — Marcus Aurelius
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an… — Ginger Baker
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin
- When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky… — Joyce Banda
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids. — Roseanne Barr
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that… — Charles Baudelaire
- They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
- Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. — Max Beerbohm