Quotes

"A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn’t such a big fan."
--Marion Jones

"I gained 60 pounds, and I’m proud of it.  Why do I need to watch my weight when I’m pregnant?  I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat."
--Kate Hudson

"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."
--Brigitte Bardot

"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."
--Nora Ephron

"Pregnancy is a kind of miracle.  Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul."
--Robert Anton Wilson

"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, PhD

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

"Remember this, for it is as true and 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 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

"It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn't be so many humans on the planet."
--Ina May Gaskin

"We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down."
-- Michel Odent, MD

"It’s not nice to fool mother nature."
--Dr. Robert Bradley

"My body knows just what to do. My baby grows just as it should be. "
--Penny Simkin

"The knowledge of how to give birth without outside intervention lies deep within each woman. Successful childbirth depends on an acceptance of the process. "
-- Suzanne Arms

...."There are many other facets to the current collapse of childhood. I have touched on the issue only briefly, but one thing is clear, our schools have deteriorated because they must deal with damaged goods. Most responsible for this damage is hospital childbirth; second comes television. Next comes day care, which fosters television and is a result of hospital childbirth. Premature schooling runs fourth. (A fifth must wait a bit for discussion.) And as our damaged children grow up and become the parents and teachers, damage will be the norm, the way of life. We will habituate to damage. Nothing else will be known. How can you miss something you can't even recognize, something you never had?"
--Jospeph Chilton Pearce, Childhood’s End

"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
--Boris Pasternak

"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one."
--Gloria Steinem

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
--Friedrich Nietzche