Pain Of Childbirth Quotes

#1. In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

Nora Ephron

#2. Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

David Gemmell

#3. The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

Freeman Dyson

#4. Functions that create values are easier to combine in new ways than functions that directly perform side effects

Marijn Haverbeke

#5. Does it hurt?" Like a bastard. "Women are known for their ability to endure pain." "Mmm. And to think you are considered the weaker sex." She cut him a look. "A label no doubt assigned by a man who never witnessed a childbirth.

Sarah MacLean

#6. The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

Margaret Mead

#7. I have to say that I am much less impressed by crucifixion now that I am in childbirth. It is really not possible that anything could hurt more than this. I grieve for the suffering of Our Lord, of course. But if He had tried a bad birth He would know what pain is.

Philippa Gregory

#8. I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country

Yanis Varoufakis

#9. It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

Jessica Mitford

#10. I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Emo Philips

#11. Childbirth shapes women as a horizon of anticipation. Women come into consciousness, she speculated, imagining a future pain toward which their bodies inevitably propel them.

Leslie Jamison

#12. Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.

Elizabeth Noble

#13. They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only ... now ... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.

Lionel Shriver

#14. 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

#15. I'm an actor that cares.

Joe Manganiello

#16. The curse that was laid upon Eve
her desire would be for her husband, and her pain in childbirth would be greatly multiplied
even shows us how patriarchy, subordination, and pain are part of the Fall. They were never God's original intent; they are a consequence of sin.

Sarah Bessey

#17. Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.

RZA

#18. Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for the so-called "fall of man". Their punishment was to experience pain in childbirth, and never be trusted by man or God again.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

Riane Eisler

#20. But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

Steve Spurrier

#21. It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

W. Somerset Maugham

#22. He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child? The gentle, smiling ones own the good secret. Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make flesh that holds fast and binds eternity.

Ray Bradbury

#23. [T]he princesses were beautiful as the day is long and so noble they, they could pee through a dozen mattresses-

Terry Pratchett

#24. 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

#25. When avoidance of pain becomes the major emphasis of childbirth care, the paradoxical effect is that more women have to deal with pain after their babies are born.

Ina May Gaskin

#26. Can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself n is beset with weakness.

Anonymous

#27. This form of love is like the pain
of childbirth: so intense
it's hard to remember afterwards,

Margaret Atwood