Birthing Process Quotes

In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.

Natural childbirth scares me. I think before you have natural childbirth you should find out how big the baby is. Three pounds -- natural childbirth. Anything over three pounds -- heroin.

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

[Childbirth] is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It's like an 'Alien' movie. I started crying, it was so emotional ... I was there in the room but I wasn't planning on doing much. But then I see this blue pinhead come out and I think I said to the nurse, 'What the hell is that?' And then it turns into this round red thing in seconds. It's just shocking.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.

I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

When I asked what people would change about their bodies on Twitter, the birthing process was an extremely popular response!

my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

I was always interested in midwifery; it was my plan B.

Labor is really going to hurt.