Birth Quote by Diana Athill

“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women…

— Jean Sasson

“Still a midwife. Thing being born is the world. New, ugly baby world. Mission,”

— Meg Elison

“Then there were those girls who became midwives: girls who could not get enough of the tiniest of babies - girls who would grow…

— Chris Bohjalian

“She’s fertile, docile . . . she’d give you a child every nine months! I’ll teach her how to raise the children, and that way they’ll all…

— Joël Dicker

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”

— Barbara Katz Rothman

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

— Barbara Katz Rothman

“I can’t just give you all the answers. You have to earn the right to be the Progeny.” - Eve”

— Candace Knoebel

“One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.”

— Meša Selimović

“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Odd that you should choose to be a midwife, having never experienced birth yourself.” In other circumstances the words would have stung. She thought,…

— Roberta Rich

“When you look at them as babies in the cradle, you never know what they are going to become, but you always hope for…

— Elizabeth Chadwick