Childbirth Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I'm not sure if my husband is going to be there when I actually have the baby. He said the only way he's going to be in the room when there's a delivery is if there's a pizza involved.

  Rita Rudner

  Baby, Husband, Way

  Rita Rudner (2002). “Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel”, Washington Square Press

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• The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

  Flora Thompson

  Children, Husband, Wife

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.128, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn't die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, Mom, Issues

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife.

  Robin Lim

  Baby, Feet, Path

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.

  Robin Lim

  Passionate, Seekers

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• ...thousands of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective.

  Lee Jong-wook

  Pregnancy, Simple, Years

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• I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

  Billy Joel

  Kids, Uterus, Compare

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• Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be awesome.

  Bill Engvall

  Men, Would Be, Wake Up

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Feb 13, 2013

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