Best Midwife Quotes
55 Midwife quotes by 47 unique authors
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
— Dan Simmons
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If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,…
— George Orwell
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Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.
— Sylvia Plath
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I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found…
— Sarah Wayne Callies
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There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for…
— Naomi Klein
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How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the…
— Michael J. Gelb
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost…
— Alain de Botton
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to…
— Eric Hoffer
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Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
— David Ogilvy
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The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in…
— George Saunders
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
— Billy Wilder
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Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an…
— Clifton Fadiman
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Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth…
— Jostein Gaarder
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O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger…
— William Shakespeare
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Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she held it up…
— Gail Carriger
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Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or…
— Jennifer Worth
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take…
— Ram Dass
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When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician,…
— Alice Dreger
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There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I…
— Azzedine Alaia
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Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional…
— Bunker Roy
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I…
— Natalie Martinez
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My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.
— Matthew Morrison
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Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had…
— Deborah Harkness
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Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife
— Unknown Author
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47 authors contributed a total of 55 Midwife Quotes, led by these top contributors: