Childbirth Quotes - Page 8

• Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

  Philippa Gregory

  Country, Husband, Taken

  Philippa Gregory (2007). “The Other Boleyn Girl: A Novel”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his temper with everyone around him who isn’t in childbirth. And he has yet to start shooting lighting bolts at people. Poor Damien still has a burn scar.” – Kat

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Dad, Grandma

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.400, St. Martin's Press

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• Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

  David Gemmell

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mistake, Lying, Artist

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• The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.

  Nora Roberts

  Sight, Blood, Class

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• The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

  Mark Twain

  Biblical, Discovery, Innovation

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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• Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pregnancy, Ebb And Flow, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 27, 2015

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• The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

  Amrita Pritam

  Fire, Flames, Wife

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• Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Climbing, Mountain

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Peculiar Treasure: An Autobiography”, p.13, Vintage

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• We live in the least ugly time in history. If you look at back when Beethoven was writing, half the kids were dying, mothers were dying at childbirth, there were more wars going on then than there are now. People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

  Joshua Bell

  Beautiful, Mother, War

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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• It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Children, Pain, Artist

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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