Woman In Labor Quotes

#1. Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. I was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in a motorcade. It looked to me like a million police cars buzzing around the vehicle in which i, a woman in labor, was riding. And they all followed. Into Elmhurst Hospital and up to the delivery room. They surrounded the hospital.

Assata Shakur

#3. If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.

Grantly Dick-Read

#4. A laboring woman, though, while she endured her labor, lay at the center of something truly radiant in four dimensions; every birth everywhere, all the vectors of human evolution and migration originating and terminating at the parting of her legs.

Michael Chabon

#5. I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

Astrid Lindgren

#6. To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

William Butler Yeats

#7. This means that a woman who continues regular, sustained exercise until the onsent of labor usually delivers five to seven days earlier than a woman with an active lifestyle who does not exercise regularly. What an incentive to exercise!

James F. Clapp III

#8. She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

Bella Abzug

#9. It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

Reid Hoffman

#10. Men often told a fairy tale in which there was a division of labor in families, the man going out to earn money, the woman looking after home and children. Reality was different.

Ken Follett

#11. I have to.
I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.

Kelley Armstrong

#12. Music is my girlfriend, pretty much. It's makes it a little difficult, but I'm always looking, looking for the right girl.

Shwayze

#13. In a way, I realized, every woman risked her life when bringing a child into the world. Labor and delivery were serious business, and not for the faint of heart. Yet down through the centuries women took that risk, willing to trade life for life.

Mindy Starns Clark

#14. To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.'

Joan Kirner

#15. Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#16. Our economy today depends upon women in the labor force. One out of three workers is a woman. Today, there are almost 25 million women employed, and their number is rising faster than the number of men in the labor force.

John F. Kennedy

#17. Cojones: it's a thing you either have or don't.

Gabbo De La Parra

#18. No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

Gertrude Atherton

#19. Tom read, - "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
"Them's good words, enough," said the woman; "who says 'em?"
"The Lord," said Tom.
"I jest wish I know'd whar to find Him," said the woman.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#20. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.

Blaise Pascal

#21. 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

#22. A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country

Michael Pollan

#23. What is the difference between a parasite and a liberal? The spelling!

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#24. And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.

Marilyn French

#25. If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

Ina May Gaskin

#26. If a woman is physically active during labor, her baby is constantly repositioning in the womb, readjusting and descending, preparing for the birth. Requiring a woman to be in bed during any part of her labor and decreasing her ability to move increases the need for interventions.

Barbara Harper

#27. Labor will hurt. Probably a lot. But whether this is negative is another matter ... A laboring woman can be in a great deal of pain, yet feel loved and supported and exhilarated by the creative forces flowing through her body and her ability to meet labor's challenges.

Henci Goer

#28. Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.

Janet Schwegel

#29. That beautiful mild woman for whose sake
There's many a one shall find out all heartache
On finding that her voice is sweet and low
Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know-
Although they do not talk of it at school -
That we must labor to be beautiful.

W.B.Yeats

#30. According to a 2007 assessment by Salary, the domestic labor of a woman who stays home to care for her children is worth an impressive $138,095 a year. (That's a three-percent raise from the $134,121 "earned" the year before.) By the way, that salary is compensation for a 91.6-hour work week,

Melissa Stanton

#31. There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

Hillary Clinton

#32. Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Emile M. Cioran

#33. Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Geraldine Brooks

#34. Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.

Helen Varney

#35. You bear a sword and shield, remind me
of her labor, her stoning gaze. What beast

will your blade free next? What call will you loose
from another woman's throat?

Donika Kelly