Childbirth Quotes
110 quotes by 97 authors
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding…
— Brigitte Bardot
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On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
— Bruce Willis
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Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the…
— Betty Friedan
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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth…
— Mark Twain
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they…
— Erica Jong
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of…
— Navi Pillay
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Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.
— Debbie Reynolds
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Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is...…
— Sheryl WuDunn
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It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go…
— Grantly Dick-Read
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According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for…
— John Dye
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A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or…
— Peter Jackson
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Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware.…
— Grantly Dick-Read
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No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception
— Grantly Dick-Read
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The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
— Stephen Gaskin
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If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women.…
— Michel Odent
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...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is…
— Marsden Wagner
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Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and…
— Haruki Murakami
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A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to…
— Eda LeShan
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
— Louise Erdrich
Who Wrote These Childbirth Quotes
97 authors contributed a total of 110 Childbirth Quotes, led by these top contributors: