Giving Birth Quotes - Page 2

• It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Girl, Baby, Cancer

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• Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in!

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Suffering, Birth

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• Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Elephants

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  Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Birthday, Character

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

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• Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.

  Marsden Wagner

  Years, Healthy, Normal

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• Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Children, Adoption

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

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• Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Pregnancy, Giving, Perspective

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

  Michel Odent

  Inspiring, Children, Team

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  Eve Merriam

  Mother, Dream, Veterans Day

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• In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Plato, Eye

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• My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Mother, Giving, Age

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• Birth is nothing where virtue is not

  Moliere

  Giving, Birth, Virtue

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• Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of
  what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

  Marianne Williamson

  Religious, Giving, Religion

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.

  Elayne Boosler

  Baby, Funny Inspirational, People

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

  Madeline Tiger Bass

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Sweet

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• ...within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe.

  Eric Butterworth

  Positive, Believe, Law Of Attraction

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• The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Eye, Giving, Water

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• I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to an Other and simultaneously being reborn as a child in the playground of creation.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Children, Writing, Giving

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• Mastering is your last chance to fix or address any issues that you may have before giving birth to this beautiful baby album or track.

  Emily Lazar

  Beautiful, Baby, Issues

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Baby, Fall

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• Every day life is being conceived somewhere.  Every day someone is carrying a child.  Every day someone is giving birth to a child.  Every day children are coming under the influences of the world. So all these events we can pray for daily.  And we can be a Keeper of the Flame with the Maha Chohan

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Children, Flames, Giving

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• Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.

  Alejandro Zambra

  Letting Go, Children, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.

  Graeme Smith

  Children, School, Years

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