Childbirth Quotes - Page 2

She is emerging (she has no choice) / into a place / like sex or childbirth, / one thing to the observer, something very different to the participant.

Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see.

How naive Lore had been, despite being the daughter of a father no one spoke of, despite the strange, incomplete conversations at her mother’s deathbed; how again and again she was caught up short by the discovery that other people had stories they didn’t tell, or told stories that weren’t entirely true. How mostly you got odd chunks torn from the whole, impossible truly to understand in their damaged form.

Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and the panic, and the amount of technology that is saving the life of the two people you love most in the world, when you see how much stainless steel and money it takes to fight off the fact that god wants both those people dead, no one, no one can look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say there's a god, because I'll tell ya, if we were squatting in the woods, the two people I love most would be dead. There's just no way around that. If I were in charge, no way. We need technology to fight against nature; nature so wants us dead. Nature is trying to kill us.

The moment of birth is a miracle .

The sacred-time will hold my babies in my hand.

The sacred-time determines the due events.

The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.

Blessed is the womb that born you.

Má leaves me but I'm not alone, and a terrifying thought creeps into my head. Family is now something I have created and not just something I was born into.

A child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, in sacred moment of conception.

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

The grace of fulfilled dream is phenomenal.

Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

All things are made beautiful at a timely hour.