Giving Birth Quotes

• Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Impact, Giving, Mind

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• Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Journey, Giving, Soul

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, Touchstone

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  Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Strong, Pregnancy

  Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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• The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Passion, Safety, Giving

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• The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Healing

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• The moment you're born you're done for.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving, Done, Birth

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• Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

  Carol Burnett

  Funny, Witty, Children

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• Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Struggle, Men

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• No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Disease, Reincarnation, Born

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• Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

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• When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

  Gracie Allen

  Funny Birthday, Funny Inspirational, Women

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• Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?

  Sam Keen

  Children, Father, Simple

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• Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

  Nicole Appleton

  Tattoo, Mom, Motherhood

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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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• The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if they want their birth to be natural. Making choices of where and with whom to birth is not the same as bringing knowledge and skills into your birth regardless of where and with whom you birth.

  Michel Odent

  Responsibility, Skills, Choices

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• Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

  Sam Levenson

  Baby, Children, Fun

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Baby, Pregnancy

  Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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  After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Suicide, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

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• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

  Dean Koontz

  Small Changes, Storm, World

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.327, Bantam

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• Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

  Maxim Gorky

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

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• Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Birth, Pinnacle

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• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Giving, Drug, Wonder Woman

  "The biggest mother of them all" by John Lyttle, www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 1996.

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• When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.

  Christiane Northrup

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Moving

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• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Honor

  Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). “The banquet (also known as The symposium)”

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