Labor Pains Quotes

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

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.

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.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

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

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.

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.

Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.

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

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

Labor is really going to hurt.

My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.I nodded mutely.'That's a bit what giving birth is like.

There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.

I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I don't just vomit this stuff up. It's agony. The only thing that comes close is childbirth, except it's like being in labor for eighteen months.