Birth Quote by Grantly Dick-Read

The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.

— Stephen Gaskin

I've found childbirth to be so unique in its ability to completely humble you while also completely empowering you. It reduces you to your…

— Eva Amurri

Giving birth is an overwhelming experience. You feel joyous, exhausted, thrilled, desperate, excited and terrified all at once.

— Rebecca Front

Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of…

— Riane Eisler

The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.

— Vera Farmiga

It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must…

— Grantly Dick-Read

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

— Robin Lim

I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is surely the…

— Ani DiFranco

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we…

— Anonymous

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

“Women's bodies have a near perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong.”

— Peggy Vincent

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of…

— Elizabeth Noble