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Birth is nothing where virtue is not -- Moliere
The moment you're born you're done for. -- Arnold Bennett
Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo. -- Nicole Appleton
After your death you will be what you were before your birth. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. -- Madonna Ciccone
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?" -- Eve Merriam
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. -- Emile M. Cioran
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. -- Gracie Allen
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. -- Sam Levenson
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence -- Smiley Blanton
People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool. -- Elayne Boosler
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything. -- Willie Dixon
The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety. -- Sarah J. Buckley
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. -- Dean Koontz
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them -- Plato
...within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe. -- Eric Butterworth
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. -- Albert Einstein
Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new. -- Marianne Williamson
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
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married). -- Phyllis Schlafly
We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the root of our being where the sacred is born. Then, standing in both the inner and outer worlds, we will find our self to be part of the momentous synchronicity of life giving birth to itself. -- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth. -- Sadie Frost
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children. -- Ann Brashares
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head -- Carol Burnett
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war? -- Eve Merriam
Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth. -- Hugh Grant
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation! -- Sam Taylor-Wood
Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman). -- Paulo Coelho
Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons. -- Kim Hyesoon
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Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said. -- Philip K. Dick
When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life. -- Ezra Miller
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but itâ??s more like having a gallbladder operation. -- Al Yankovic
Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it! -- Ernest Holmes
Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew! -- Lady G
In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater. -- Chien-Ming Wang
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. -- Liya Kebede
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. -- Koichi Tanaka
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. -- Heather Hart
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging. -- Deepak Chopra
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. -- Jack Whitehall
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. -- Erma Bombeck
The thing I've done the best in this world is giving birth to Saet Byul. I can't imagine my world without her -- Kim Soo-hyun
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks. -- Bill McKibben
33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins. -- Jarod Kintz
Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different. -- Beyonce Knowles
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. -- Laozi
I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me. -- Adeline Yen Mah
A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe. -- Clarence Day
I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know? -- Lee Daniels
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp. -- M.I.A.
If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career. -- Richard Jeni
Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us. -- Kim Hyesoon
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees. -- Sunday Adelaja
Mastering is your last chance to fix or address any issues that you may have before giving birth to this beautiful baby album or track. -- Emily Lazar
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die. -- Erich Fromm
The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up the will to live. -- Timothy Zahn
A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment. -- Joseph Campbell
The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth. -- Khalil Gibran
Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real. -- Ashlee Simpson
I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth -- Paula Radcliffe
When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she'd give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. -- Jack Whitehall
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent. -- Rumi
Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. -- Jennifer Crusie
Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years. -- Steven Pressfield
Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too. --
The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle. -- Rachel Weisz
I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out? -- Marian Keyes
Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth -- Christiane Northrup
Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting. -- Anousheh Ansari
With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature. -- Mariella Frostrup
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame? -- Karen Essex
I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?' -- Olivia Wilde
I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological. -- Janine di Giovanni
A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman's crowning creative experience of a lifetime." -- John Stevenson
Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew! -- Lady Gaga
My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled. -- Robin Williams
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it. -- Bryce Dallas Howard

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