Peace... it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It
means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
~~~ Michel Odent, MD
We have a secret in our culture... and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.
~~~ Laura Stavoe Harm
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.
~~~ Common Knowledge Trust
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
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense and as
courageous as either one.
~~~ Gloria Stienem
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most
useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
~~~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I tell you: one must have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have
chaos in you.
~~~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Women's bodies have near-perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved
that things can go wrong.
~~~ Peggy Vincent
Childbirth is a time when a woman's power and strength emerge full force, but it is also a
vulnerable time, and a time of many changes presenting opportunities for personal growth.
~~~ AnneMarie van Oploo
If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing.
~~~ Agnes Sallet Von Tannenberg
Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the
pangs of birth for she has held a star.
~~~ Larry Barretto
300,000 women will be giving birth with you today. Relax and breathe and do nothing else.
Labor is hard work, it hurts and you can do it.
~~~ Pam England
Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth. -Virginia Di Orio
Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers...strong, competent,
capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.
~~~ Barbara Katz Rothman
Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and
bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn't dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly
closed buds and forcing them to blossom to your time line.
~~~ Gloria Lemay
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000
generations is not so easily overpowered.
~~~ Sarah Buckley
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child?
~~~ Caroline Norton
In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical
closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.
~~~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form
and beauty.
~~~ Christopher Largen
To witness the birth of a child is our best opportunity to experience the meaning of the word
miracle.
~~~ Paul Carvel
When you welcome a child into the world, you witness the birth of your child...you realize that
there's no doubt, there's no question that women are the stronger of the sexes.
~~~ Johnny Depp
Where did you come from, baby dear? / Out of the everywhere into here.
~~~ George MacDonald
We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child
certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.
~~~ Sameerah Shareef
