Birth Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed herself automatically while giving birth to Dwayne. The printer disappeared. He was a disappearing machine.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

“she was a congenitally ungraceful girl with a mortifying inaptitude for all accomplishments.”

— Debbie Cowens

“She had born a child but two hours ago. She was so weak that she couldn't lift her head an inch from the pillow,…

— Betty Smith

“Supposedly she’d died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn’t kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn’t even been…

— Denis Johnson

“To them it’s like deliberately causing the conception of a child who is so defective that it must die in infancy. ”

— Octavia E. Butler

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to read. To have a…

— Janet Louise Stephenson

“She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and the feel…

— Sarah Pekkanen

“Exactly what was wrong with her? And could she pass it on to any children she may have?”

— Shelly Laurenston

“Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.”

— Lisa Unger

“Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any…

— Karen Abbott

“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to…

— Debbie McGowan