Arms Quote by Kim Harrison

“They say women forget the pain of childbirth. Well, they are in nature's hand. No hand took mine. I was a body of pain…

— Mary Renault

“Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender…

— Roman Payne

“That is what you do when you have a child, isn’t it, open yourself up to unimaginable pain and then try to pretend away…

— Gin Phillips

“I had no idea how we were going to figure this out. but women had been having babies since the beginning of time without…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I didn't simply want children - I probably could have found someone who would have been willing to do the baby thing - I…

— Dorothy Koomson

“There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers. It had…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Yeah, women could go on all they liked about how painful childbirth was. Eventually most of them thought about having another baby. No guy…

— Evie Hunter

“The news of suffering takes a new shape when you’re a parent. Fatherhood peels back a layer of skin, exposing a network of nerves…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.”

— J.T. Lawrence

“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait…

— Lisa See

“With this pregnancy, unlike my others, I was fully aware of the possibility of blissful, painless, potentially even orgasmic, and fully natural, unmedicalized childbirth…

— Adrienne Carmack

“All right, Kitten. Tell me what’s going on.” I kissed her shoulder because it was the only place my lips could reach without wrenching…

— Penny Reid