Biology Quote by Erasmus Darwin

“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and woman make…

— Avital Norman Nathman

“By making the birth of the child the physical choice of the mother, the sexual revolution has made marriage and child support a social…

— George Akerlof

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

— Erma Bombeck

If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Parenthood is the magnanimity of the soul, not the mere outcome of a biological process. (Dr Abin. From TATTERED LOTUS)”

— Dr. Abin

“There are even a number of present-day human cultures in which collective fatherhood is practised, as for example among the Barí Indians. According to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The birthing journey requires us as women to get back to a sense of life basics where our connection to intuition and instinct are…

— Maha Al Musa

“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong disappearance of…

— Anna Quindlen

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to…

— Le Guin Ursula

If Men Got Pregnant: Natural childbirth would become obsolete

— Nikhil Saluja

Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the…

— Sarah J. Buckley