Elizabeth Noble Quotes

• Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Love Is, Like Love, Energy

  Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”

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• Birth
  is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth
  stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching
  of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
  The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of
  inner trust.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Pregnancy, Challenges, Limits

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• However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Thought Provoking

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• Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Mother, Mistake, Giving

  Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”

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• Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Black And White, Shade, Where You Are

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• Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Couple, Pain, New Life

  Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”

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• It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Crush, Holiday, Lasts

  Elizabeth Noble (2011). “When You Were Mine: A Novel”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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