Sheila Kitzinger Quotes

#1. 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

#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. After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

Joe Flanigan

#5. I move we get more wine,' Alistair said. 'What does the panel think?' ...
It was obvious that the entire war could be solved in this way. The trick would be to reach for a corkscrew instead, every time some brass hat ordered artillery.

Chris Cleave

#6. The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.

Buzz Aldrin

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I have to keep her in line somehow or she'll think she's the boss of everything.

Michael Thomas Ford

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

Sheila Kitzinger

#11. I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

Jenna Bush

#12. The sun was about to set, he told us in a gravelly voice. He swept his hands in a downward motion, apparently to demonstrate how a sunset worked

Richelle Mead

#13. 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

#14. Manners that would keep you starving are no manners worth respecting.

Scott Lynch

#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. Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

Tehyi Hsieh

#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