Giving Birth Quotes

“Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth
to itself over and over again, and those whom it
appoints agents of change and progress
do not always accept their destinies willingly.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying..
The rest of his life he'll spend discovering why...”
― Erik Tanghe

“There’s a reason they call childbirth labor. Making a healthy baby takes effort: It requires foresight and self-denial and courage. It’s expensive and demanding and tiring. You have to learn new things, change many habits, possibly deal with complicated medical situations, make difficult decisions, and undergo stressful ordeals. I had a wisdom tooth pulled without Novocaine while I was pregnant—it hurt a lot and seemed to go on forever. The kindness of the very young dental assistant, holding back my hair as I spat blood into a bowl, will stay with me for the rest of my life. Pregnant women do such things, and much harder things, all the time. For example, they give birth, which is somewhere on the scale between painful and excruciating. Or they have a cesarean, as I did, which is major surgery. None of this is without risk of death or damage or trauma, including psychological trauma. To force girls and women to undergo all this against their will is to annihilate their humanity. When they undertake it by choice, we should all be grateful.”
― Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

“We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal.”
― Dianna Hardy, Summer's End

“Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that when she swore and groaned she really didn't know what she was doing because she was in a kind of twilight sleep. I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas.”
― Grant Morrison, Nameless

“On first hearing that little voice – as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my soul was that of the highest magnitude of earthquake, those that occur every hundred years, say, or every thousand. The old shell I called myself cracked and was swallowed by a sudden crevasse, and just as suddenly was lost in the commotion.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

“The strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and father met and decided to get married to each other. And out of the millions of sperm, that the one with your genes was the one that made it to the egg and fertilised the egg. I'll never forget it.”
― A.J. Jacobs, Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

“Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.”
― Steven Magee

“Conception is a blessed event.
Fertilization is divine intervention.
The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter.
The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Then God said, "I'll bless you with a son to fill your heart with all the joy that was stolen from you." And I said, "Amen".”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“What a great gladness to welcome a new born baby into the world.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Writing a novel is like having a baby. I know because I've had both, and the experiences were hellish. By comparison, the torture of the damned—plunged into excrement, boiled in blood, beheaded, set upon by harpies—are like love nips from your yippy little dog.”
― Kim Addonizio, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life

“Why do people do this?” I demanded as the pain began to fade. Though this time, rather than disappearing, it seemed to settle into my lower back and apply for permanent residence. “You’d think that in a time when we can talk to people all over the world on a device smaller than my hand, someone would have invented a better way to bring new people into the world. This is ridiculous. Archaic.”
― Rachel Vincent, Fury

“In an instant, I knew what mattered more than anything else in the world: my baby. I'd known love, but I'd never been so sure of it. Her dimpled knuckles, the way she rooted around on my chest, looking to reconnect after being so suddenly severed from my body. She put a mirror in front of me and forced me to look at every imperfect and still-beautiful piece of who I am and then said, "I love you. All of you.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“This is one of the many truths that she understood but failed to accept: that men are rewarded for destroying life and women for creating it. But that seems to be in the nature of all dualities, for how can we see the radiance of goodness when there is no shadow of evil to set it off?”
― Maya Khankhoje, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy