Birth Quote by Elizabeth Noble

Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth)…

— Jenny McCarthy

I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing…

— Ina May Gaskin

Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means…

— Ina May Gaskin

Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational opportunities has…

— Joan Raphael-Leff

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

— Edward Abbey

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

— Erma Bombeck

It takes more than just giving birth, to be a mother.

— Anonymous

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they…

— Mariella Frostrup

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth…

— Aristotle

“A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to…

— John Stevenson

I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many…

— Rumaan Alam

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the…

— Jodi Picoult