"It is somehow reassuring to discover that the……" — Jessica Mitford
"It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth."
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14 Quotes by Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford has 14 quotes on this site.
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When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch,…
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
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I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
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Objectivity? I've always had an objective.
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Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
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Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
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One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just…
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I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are…
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Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.
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Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn…
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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
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Objectivity? I always have an objective.
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More Childbirth Quotes
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one of 110 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't…
— Brigitte Bardot
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On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
— Bruce Willis
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Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said,…
— Betty Friedan
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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the…
— Mark Twain
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy…
— Erica Jong
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It…
— Navi Pillay
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Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.
— Debbie Reynolds
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Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in…
— Sheryl WuDunn
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It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or…
— Grantly Dick-Read
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According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a…
— John Dye
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A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that…
— Peter Jackson
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