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  • The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

  • Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

    Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.38, Penguin
  • There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

    "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

    "Hugh Laurie's 'House': No Pain, No Gain". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.
  • Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for the so-called "fall of man". Their punishment was to experience pain in childbirth, and never be trusted by man or God again.

    Pain   Women   Fall  
  • To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

  • In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

    "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).
  • Having a baby can be a scream.

    Joan Rivers, Jerrilyn Farmer (2009). “Murder at the Academy Awards (R): A Red Carpet Murder Mystery”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
  • You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

    Writing   Winter   House  
    Dan O'Brien (2007). “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch”, p.171, Random House
  • 13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

    Pregnancy   Years   Care  
  • In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

    Children   Pain   War  
    FaceBook post by Anne Frank from May 10, 2015
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 27, 2015
  • As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.

    James W. Loewen (2007). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
  • You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."

    Mother   Children   Home  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

    "Athenaeum" magazine, #62 (B&S), 1798.
  • There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

    Adoption   Doe   Want  
    Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.7, Random House
  • Childbirth is a wonderful thing, but the reality is that it can dramatically change a woman's body. SUI occurs when the vaginal wall weakens and cannot provide adequate support to the urethra, thus causing leaking. The good news is that women with SUI have many different treatment options available to them.

    Wall   Reality   Support  
  • We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

    Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”
  • Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

    Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
  • In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

    Fashion   Media   Class  
  • Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

    Spiritual   Goal   Growth  
    Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.138, Ballantine Books
  • 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 (1956). “Love or perish”
  • I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

    Mother   Book   Years  
    Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.11, Harper Collins
  • A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.

  • ...thousands of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective.

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

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

    Mother   Baby   Pregnancy  
    Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
  • Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction.

    Mother   Children   Home  
  • As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

    Prayer   Heart   Feet  
    Margaret Sanger (2012). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.55, Courier Corporation
  • Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.

    Dog   Pain   Book  
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