Best Childbirth Quotes

#1. Holy moment is a sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?"
"Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth."
"Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.

MaryJanice Davidson

#3. The first printed mention of bagels ... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

Leo Rosten

#4. 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.

Jane Wagner

#5. I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Euripides

#6. Children see beauty in everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. The birth of a child is divine miracle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.

Romola Garai

#9. Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Gloria Steinem

#10. Childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun.
(Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)

Shulamith Firestone

#11. Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire of a thousand suns, burned through my belly. I tried to squirm away from his hands, using mine to push him away.

A.B. Shepherd

#12. What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to ponder such possibilities denies the value of motherhood.

Debbie McGowan

#13. My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

#14. In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception": if a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex.

Jill Lepore

#15. Whose interest does egg freezing serve? The woman's or that of an ambitious, still pretty unforgiving culture that doesn't really ever see childbearing for female employees as convenient?

Randi Hutter Epstein

#16. In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.

Jean Marzollo