Quotes About Being A Midwife

#1. I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

Sarah Wayne Callies

#2. 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

#3. Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born.

Stephen Jenkinson

#4. I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

Allison Anders

#5. Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Johannes Kepler

#6. The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Ram Dass

#8. When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother.
How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother
and as a parent.
Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.

Ruth Ehrhardt

#9. Is there a difference between being the midwife of truth, or the midwife of legends?

Amin Maalouf