Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength
Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.
Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence
Birth was the death of him.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
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