Birth Quotes - Page 10

• There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Cesarean, Outcomes

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• The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

  Patty Murray

  Fda, Abortion, Drug

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• Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

  Hesiod

  Children, Grief, Heart

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• A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective [meaning requested for no medical reason, not to be confused with needed surgery planned in advance] repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level.

  Henci Goer

  Confused, Fighting, Winning

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Men, Civilization

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be”, p.47, Fireship Press

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• For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Age, Sickness

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• Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Women, Giving, Society

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• Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Two, Numbers, Our Lives

  "Humor & Caricature magazine". October 1995.

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• For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Men, Crime, Born

  "Life Is a Dream". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635.

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• Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

  Stewart Edward White

  Mystery, Continuation

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• Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

  David Gemmell

  Struggle, Law, Agony

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• Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Nuts, Piano

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• I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.

  Richard Clayderman

  Couple, Block, War

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• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Nature, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Real

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• Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Noble, Wealth

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• This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Self

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Home, Tired

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books

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• The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Jesus, Sunrise, Jesus Birth

  Henry Van Dyke (1993). “A Treasury of Christmas Stories”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Gay, Names

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 28, 2010

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• Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

  Kofi Annan

  Cutting, People, Youth

  "Young People, the Change Makers!" by Marsida Bandilli, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Taking action births motivation.

  Greg Smith

  Motivation, Action, Taking Action

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