(110 quotes found)
“I just didn't realize what we were in for. Nobody tells you these things. It's like childbirth.”
Vivian Cammick
“Many birth defects form during the embryonic period, before a woman even realizes she's missed her first period.”
Amy Case
“It's a one-stop shop. We have nutrition counseling, childbirth education, parenting classes. WIC comes here.”
Connie Krisman
“The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.”
Margaret Mead
“Childbirth is a miracle. No, it's not. . . . It's a chemical reaction, that's all.”
Bill Hicks
“Sometimes it was something like the birth of a new child in the home. Sometimes it was illness of a child.”
Philip Smith
“What's all this fuss about fathers being present at the birth of their children? The way events are shaping, they'll be lucky to be present at the conception.”
George H. Davies
“Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man”
William Shakespeare
“Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?”
Sam Keen
“Birth is the beginning of death”
Thomas Fuller