Midwife Quotes

55 quotes by 47 authors

The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long… — Leo Tolstoy
Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth. — Matthew Henry
I still deliver like a midwife — Drake
Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. — Johannes Kepler
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who… — Unknown Author
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with… — Adrienne Rich
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
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife â€” a tyrannical midwife. — Stephen Spender
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a… — Sheila Kitzinger
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that… — Edward Mills Purcell
How to you teach someone that a theatre comes about first as an idea, from an individual who has a philosophy and a passion? That… — Unknown Author
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that… — Ina May Gaskin
When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that canâ€™t be put together by a bunch of… — Ina May Gaskin
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know… — Jean Renoir
It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the… — Alice Walker
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. — Alain de Botton
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… — Michel Odent
It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth. — Barbara Katz Rothman

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