Prisoners Quote by Cecelia Ahern

“child birthing to women is like what battles are to men.”

— Sarah Tucker

“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired…

— Shulamith Firestone

“Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.”

— Peggy Vincent

“(Georgie) Did you know that a woman's life is shortened by thirty-four weeks for each boy baby she gives birth to?”

— Nancy Woodruff

“Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.”

— Philippa Gregory

“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”

— Euripides

“in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. And what’s her reward for enduring all…

— Anne Frank

“Having a baby is the single mos joyous co-experience that two human beings can share, and he wasn't going to miss a second of…

— Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

“These men, we’ve been told, are like war criminals. It’s no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their crimes are…

— Margaret Atwood

“Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off…

— Aleister Crowley

“Pregnant women shouldn’t be lifting dead bodies.”

— Jeff Strand

“The scandal of death through childbirth is not an argument for routine medicalised, interventionist birth, though it is often used as an excuse.”

— Gabrielle Palmer