Top 38 Quotes About Midwives
#1. I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.
Tracy McGrady
#2. How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.
Michael J. Gelb
#3. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.
Michel Odent
#4. Why aren't midwives the heroines of society that they should be? Why do they have such a low profile? They ought to be lauded to the skies, by everyone.
Jennifer Worth
#5. My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.
Matthew Morrison
#6. Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? -
Flora Thompson
#7. Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.
Liya Kebede
#8. I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
Rainn Wilson
#9. At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours ... Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).
Philip Yancey
#10. Savannah, I've been talking my ass off for more than an hour now, telling you shit no one's ever heard anything about, hoping that I'll say something, Jesus God, anything that will convince you to have sex with me.
Suzanne Brockmann
#11. We must always remember that we are only midwives - if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.
Diana Athill
#12. It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.
Elizabeth George
#13. We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
Ina May Gaskin
#14. My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
Chris Bohjalian
#15. Family is becoming more and more important to me.
Diane Kruger
#16. I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.
James Brown
#17. Some midwives said that pleasure overheated the seed and killed it. But others claimed that babies only come when women smile. This was the tale she told Jacob to inspire his caresses.
Anita Diamant
#18. That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth.
Stephen Graham Jones
#20. My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.
King Tuff
#21. And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,
And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.
Sarah Williams
#22. The guinea earned by doctors for a delivery was a significant part of their income. The threat of being undercut by trained midwives had to be resisted.
Jennifer Worth
#23. If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
Romain Rolland
#24. It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
Ina May Gaskin
#25. Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery care, but they may in fact be under constant pressure to practice within the techno-medical mode.
Ina May Gaskin
#26. If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
Ina May Gaskin
#27. It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
Barbara Katz Rothman
#28. The power of HEART is much stronger than the power of MIND to empower our life.
Anuj
#29. Definitely 99% of the hate I get is from other gay people.
Steve Grand
#30. The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.
Louise Nurding
#31. We will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts.
Alain De Botton
#32. Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
Dan Simmons
#33. True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
Isaiah Berlin
#34. I cried with pride as I looked into the face of a midwife from the next generation of baby catchers.
Peggy Vincent
#35. I write by hand and then transfer the text onto the computer. I like the process of actually having a pen in my hand. Things flow more easily for me that way.
Philip Kerr
#36. If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.
Margaret Chan
#37. Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
Alice Walker
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