Birth is the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being.

1. The way a society views a pregnant and birthing woman, reflects how that society views women as a whole. If women are considered weak in their most powerful moments, what does that mean?
Marcie Macari

2. Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.
Jane Weideman

3. Birth is the epicenter of women's power.
Ani DiFranco

4. 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

5. The whole point of woman-centered birth is the knowledge that a woman is the birth power source. She may need, and deserve, help, but in essence, she always had, currently has, and will have the power.
Heather McCue

6. The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
Jennifer Gilmore

7. Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say that life would be easy.
Anonymous

8. A woman in birth is at once her most powerful, and most vulnerable. But any woman who has birthed unhindered understands that we are stronger than we know.
Marcie Macari

9. I trust in my ability to birth my baby
Anonymous

10. Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead… that I’d finally found my sport.
Joyce Maynard

11. I was famous from birth.
Peter Fonda

12. If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birth.
Agnes Sallet Von Tonnenberg

13. We have a secret in our culture it's not that birth is painful, it's that women are strong.
Laura Stavoe Harm

14. If there is one thing you can do RIGHT NOW to ensure your best birth experience, it’s this: Choose a care provider who is an EXPERT in the type of birth you are planning. If you are planning a safe, skilled cesarean birth, you should hire someone who is an expert at cesarean sections. You wouldn’t hire a doctor for a c-section who said, “Well actually I’m not really comfortable with that type of birth, but I’ll let you do it if you want, I suppose…” If you’re planning a safe, natural, unmedicated birth, you should hire someone who is an EXPERT at supporting natural birth. A doctor with a 30% c-section rate is not a natural birth expert. Neither is a doctor who does routine episiotomies, or doesn’t understand how to catch a baby unless mom is laying on her back. A doctor who says “Well, most of my clients do end up choosing an epidural, but if you want to go natural you can do that, I suppose…” is NOT an expert in unmedicated birth. When you find the right care provider, they will understand your birth plan before you even show it to them, because it’s what they already do EVERY DAY.
Lauralyn Curtis

15. Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.
Harriette Hartigan

16. Birth may be a matter of a moment. But it is a unique one.
Frederick Leboyer

17. To witness the birth of a child is our best opportunity to experience the meaning of the word miracle.
Paul Carvel

18. Birth isn't something we suffer, but something we actively do and exult in.
Sheila Kitzinger

19. In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves. Jon Kabat ZinnIn giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.
Jon Kabat Zinn

20. Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers–strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.
Barbara Katz Rothman

21. Giving birth should be your greatest achievement, not your greatest fear.
Jane Weideman

22. Whenever and wherever you intend to give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.
Ina May Gaskin

23. Birth is about making mothers–strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.
Barbara Katz Rothman

24. I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
Sadie Frost

25. We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.
Laura Stavoe Harm

26. I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother what was war?
Eve Merriam

27. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
Edward Young

28. The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there’s trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it’s a miracle
Sheila Stubbs

29. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd
Thomas Mann

30. Labor Gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn

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31. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women Your body is not a lemon.
Ina May Gaskin

32. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

33. No birth certificate is issued when a friendship is born
Anonymous

34. Every mother on earth gave birth to a child except my mother, she gave birth to a legend
Anonymous

35. A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya

36. One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

37. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

38. A mother might give birth to a child but before that a child gives birth to a mother.
Anonymous

39. Crying isn't a sign of weakness. Since birth, it's always been a sign that you're alive.
Anonymous

40. The umlaut isn’t on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It’s a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.
Chloe Sevigny

41. A Birth Mother always puts the needs of her child above the wants of her heart.
Anonymous

42. 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

43. My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.
Morena Baccarin

44. Giving birth to a baby is easier than worrying about it.
Japanese Proverb

45. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males.
John Stevenson

46. The most difficult part of birth is the first year afterwards. It is the year of travail – when the soul of a woman must birth the mother inside her. The emotional labour pains of becoming a mother are far greater than the physical pangs of birth; these are the growing surges of your heart as it pushes out selfishness and fear and makes room for sacrifice and love. It is a private and silent birth of the soul, but it is no less holy than the event of childbirth, perhaps it is even more sacred.
Joy Kusek

47. Birth is not only about making babies. It's about making mothers~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength.
Barbara Katz Rothman

48. Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole Appleton

49. The main facts in human life are five birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster

50. Birth matters, and I believe the way a child is brought into the world has an important impact on the rest of life. Helping with that transition is an honor.
Anjli Aurora Hinman

51. Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty.
Christopher Largen

52. Dear guys who say condoms are uncomfortable, I've heard giving birth is pretty uncomfortable too
Anonymous

53. There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, i haven't found any.
Kathy Ireland

54. Birth is not the beginning, death is not the end.
Zhuangzi

55. It's like giving birth to a kindergartener.
Kirstie Alley

56. What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.
Stan Brakhage

57. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
David Friedrich Strauss

58. When i was born i was so surprised i didn't talk for a year and a half
Anonymous

59. Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau

60. The moment you are born you begin to die. Don't waste the moments in between
Anonymous

61. Every mother on earth gave birth to a child. Except mine, she gave birth to a legend
Anonymous

62. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana