Childbirth Quotes - Page 5

• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Mother, Children, Dirty

  Opening Remarks at Press Event on Day of Seven Billion, www.un.org. October 31, 2011.

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• My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Makeup, Ideas

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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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• The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as "Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?" But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.

  Jean Marzollo

  Pregnancy, Men, Wife

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• O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after
  childbirth!
  O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

  Louise Bogan

  Wife, Feelings, Lucky

  Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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• The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Thinking, Broken, Doubt

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• Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

  Paulo Freire

  People, Transformation, Painful

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• You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Children, Father, Europe

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

  Riane Eisler

  Pain, Cells, Awe And Wonder

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• The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

  Chris Weitz

  Children, Father, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die each year due to similar and often manageable complications. They die because they don't have access to critical maternity care that could easily save their lives.

  Christy Turlington

  Girl, Daughter, Years

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• I wasn't very good about the pain. I started screaming for painkillers after the third contraction and didn't stop until my daughter was eating solid food.

  Linda Sunshine

  Daughter, Pain, Eating

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• I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.

  Romola Garai

  Real, Recovery, Sadness

  "Lads' mags: I've been part of the problem - let me be part of the solution". Interview with Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2013.

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• During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

  Erykah Badu

  Song, Grandma, Thinking

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.

  Bill Hicks

  Miracle, Ass, Eating

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• You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a whole childbirth and child-care course without missing a lesson. But you won't really know a thing about yourselves and each other as parents, or your baby as a child, until you have her in your arms. That's the moment when the lifelong process of bringing up a child into the fold of the family begins.

  Stella Chess

  Baby, Children, Parent

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• You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

  Dan O'Brien

  Writing, Winter, House

  Dan O'Brien (2007). “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch”, p.171, Random House

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• Menopause, perimenopause, childbirth and breast-feeding can all cause a woman's sex drive to shut down.

  Drew Pinsky

  Sex, Causes, Feeding

  "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". TODAY interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

  Hugh Laurie

  Pain, Memories, Thinking

  "Hugh Laurie's 'House': No Pain, No Gain". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• [Childbirth] is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It's like an 'Alien' movie. I started crying, it was so emotional ... I was there in the room but I wasn't planning on doing much. But then I see this blue pinhead come out and I think I said to the nurse, 'What the hell is that?' And then it turns into this round red thing in seconds. It's just shocking.

  Tim Burton

  Emotional, Thinking, Blue

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• To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

  Jane Wagner

  Thinking, Zippers, Garments

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• Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them.

  Jan Struther

  Writing, Men, Suffering

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!

  Alex Gaskarth

  Giving, Process

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• my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Cousin, Complaining

  Joan Rivers (1978). “Having a Baby Can Be a Scream”, Avon Books

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