Giving Birth Quotes - Page 5

• I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

  Marian Keyes

  Mother, Giving, Choices

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• When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

  Ann Brashares

  Children, Giving, Married

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.21, Penguin

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• Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, School

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• My real mom died when I was born—hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to me, which has never been one of my favorite memories—and Dad married Denise before I’d turned a year. Without even asking my opinion on the matter. Denise and I never really clicked.

  Darynda Jones

  Mom, Dad, Memories

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.54, Macmillan

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• When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Children, Reading, Giving

  J. Courtney Sullivan (2013). “The Engagements”, p.32, Vintage

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• I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

  Laura Nyro

  Peace, Children, Giving

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• My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, `Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.

  Britney Spears

  Mom, Giving, Athletic

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?

  Randy Alcorn

  Years, Agony, Giving

  Randy Alcorn (2017). “Seeing the Unseen, Expanded Edition: A 90-Day Devotional to Set Your Mind on Eternity”, p.83, Multnomah

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• Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

  Laozi

  Change, Giving, Expectations

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• I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Mother, Years, Giving

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• If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

  Heather Hart

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some professions like firefighting, construction work, and physics. But women are better than men at some professions, too, like elementary teaching, prostitution, and giving birth. Who's to say which is more important?

  Zach Braff

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

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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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• Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mean, Motherhood, Giving

  "Beyoncé's new HBO film: how might Life is But a Dream play out?" by Katie Rogers, Ruth Spencer, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Marriage, Mean, People

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• Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Baby, Weekend

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• Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

  Robert J. LeRoy

  Motivational, Baseball, Men

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• In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Jesus, Hero, Son

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• A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.

  Lucy Liu

  Children, People, Giving

  "Lucy Liu Talks 3 Needles". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. November 27, 2006.

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• A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Mind, Firsts

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 55), 1931.

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• I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

  Paula Radcliffe

  New York, Winning, Thinking

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• Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

  Lady G

  Giving, Birth, Torture

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• Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

  Christiane Northrup

  Pregnancy, Giving, Bed

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• Yeah, I finished, it was hard. Those last five miles. It was like giving birth and then being told to run as you're giving birth. It was so much pain in my hips. I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  Pamela Anderson

  Running, Pain, Kids

  "Pamela Anderson: Running last miles of NYC Marathon was ‘like giving birth’" by Chiderah Monde, www.nydailynews.com. November 7, 2013.

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