Childbirth Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.

  Annie Dillard

  Dog, Pain, Book

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• And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds--nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.

  Dorianne Laux

  Philosophy, Book, Heart

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Taken, Biblical

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• Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

  C.D. Payne

  Ears, Faces, Mutilation

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• My understanding of voodoo is that it was important to the people who practiced it because it helped them survive. There are practical ways it enabled survival. It used herbal medicine to heal, to aid in childbirth. It was a spiritual system. It made room for hope and for magic and for possibility. For people who struggle and fight to survive and who fight to live, those are really important things.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Spiritual, Struggle, Fighting

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• Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.

  Gail Carriger

  Pain, Husband, Soul

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• The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

  Freeman Dyson

  Children, Pain, Remembered

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• Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.

  Adam Gopnik

  Sex, Writing, Self

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• I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Book, Taken

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's no more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out your ass.

  Bill Hicks

  Sex, Miracle, Wonderful

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• 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

  Smiley Blanton

  Children, Love Is, Giving

  Smiley Blanton (1956). “Love or perish”

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• There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

  Poppy Montgomery

  Different, Know How, Knows

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• 13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

  Frank Oski

  Pregnancy, Years, Care

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• For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

  Paul the Apostle

  Children, Pain, Frustration

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• I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, Book, Years

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

  Avery Brundage

  Inspirational, Men, Yards

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• Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for the so-called "fall of man". Their punishment was to experience pain in childbirth, and never be trusted by man or God again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Women, Fall

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• Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.

  Amy Neftzger

  Pain, Aggravation, People

  Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.13, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Men, Keys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.

  Jean Marzollo

  Baby, Couple, Challenges

  Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press

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• Everybody was upset that Vladimir Putin was missing. He was in Switzerland with his girlfriend. She had a baby in Switzerland because in Russia childbirth is not covered by Putin-care.

  David Letterman

  Baby, Girlfriend, Russia

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• Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Goal, Growth

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.

  Dave Barry

  Emotional, Maturity, Shoes

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