Kitzinger Quotes

#1. No woman can resist admiration and presents
especially presents, provided they happen to be just the thing she wants. He was sharp enough to know that
most men are. Naturally he wanted something in return
all men do

Wilkie Collins

#2. In acknowledging woman-to-woman help it is important to recognize that power, within the family and elsewhere, can be used vindictively, and that it is not only powerful men who abuse women; women with power may also abuse other women.

Sheila Kitzinger

#3. Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in!

Sheila Kitzinger

#4. Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.

Sheila Kitzinger

#5. For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

Sheila Kitzinger

#6. The Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

Mercedes McCambridge

#7. Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go "damn if I'd only been myself." Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation.

Joan Jett

#8. The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

Jean-Luc Godard

#9. In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

Sheila Kitzinger

#10. The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.

Mario Cuomo

#11. Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall.

Jeff Stelling

#12. The absence of theistic belief...

{Defining the word 'atheism'}

Joseph McCabe

#13. Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

Anna Quindlen

#14. All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendants with infinite patience.

Sheila Kitzinger

#15. In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.

Sheila Kitzinger

#16. Morning had gotten lost on the way home. We would lie this way forever, always saying goodbye, never parting.

Miranda July

#17. In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.

Sheila Kitzinger

#18. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.

Sheila Kitzinger