Best Midwife Quotes

55 Midwife quotes by 47 unique authors

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. — David Ogilvy
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
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. — Billy Wilder
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
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
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger… — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think. — Matthew Morrison
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
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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