Childbirth Quote by Margaret Mitchell

“With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come, as well…

— Jackie French

“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

“Her body had been in a war and, as in love, it had used every part of itself.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“In order to hand me over she had to detach herself from herself, and afterward she never managed to get back inside herself and…

— emuna elon

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“She had come to accept, deeply, and with certitude, that she had been born into a world, a life, that would not let her…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind…

— Dan Chaon

“She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the…

— Wendell Berry

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might…

— Kimberley Freeman

“Did that mean she had not cared deeply for any of her husbands? I wondered. Or only that she was a woman of great…

— Diana Gabaldon

“The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them mattered. What mattered was that we completely accepted each other. That…

— Emily Giffin

“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband…

— Shirley Hazzard