Birth Quote by Robert A. Bradley

“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women…

— Jean Sasson

“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that…

— Sara Sheridan

“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

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Thousands more were being born today, being conceived—women with their knees raised all over the world. Mrs.”

— Alice McDermott

“Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.”

— Dakota Dawn

“33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”

— Barbara Katz Rothman

“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The first night in the hospital with a snuffling baby girl, I learned that my family was not the only thing that had expanded.…

— Anna White

“All women need practical and emotional support around birth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer