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The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby. -- Ashley Montagu
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
We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along. -- Simon Helberg
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Labor gives birth to ideas. -- Jim Rohn
There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town. -- Michael Richards
Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself. -- Bernie Siegel
The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to! -- Susan Sontag
High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor. -- Jean de la Bruyere
. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go. -- Susan Piver

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