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“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.”

“Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.”

Giving Children Mother Bits Birth Goodness Shock Curves Adjustment Syndromes Cerebral Cerebral Palsy

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.”

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Author:Belle Boyd

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”

Years Children Light Age Death Mother Four Wife Son Huge Birth Kings Daughter Hundred Died Heavy Score Forty Four Years Utopia Suffocating Birth Of A Child

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.”

“Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.”

Years Children Beautiful Born Beauty Marriage Fields Theory Birth Years Ago Fifty Quantum Mechanic Relativity Quantum Mechanics Robust

Author:Steven Weinberg

“The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.”

Children Ends Care Political Party Moral Support Perspective Birth Majority Abortion Conception Nutrition Political Parties Legislators Day Care

Author:Barney Frank

“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.”

Knows Children Mother Father Race Baby Birth Drug Crisis Agency Pregnant Adoption Homosexual Birth Mother

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.”

Heart Children Earth Spirit Mother Waiting Water Morning Creation Birth Empty Moved Filled Silent Breathing Cradle Like A Mother Breathing Life

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.”

Giving Years Children Age Today School Dies Chance Five Birth Five Years Afghanistan Disputes Giving Birth Five Year Olds

Author:Graeme Smith

“Every day life is being conceived somewhere. Every day someone is carrying a child. Every day someone is giving birth to a child. Every day children are coming under the influences of the world. So all these events we can pray for daily. And we can be a Keeper of the Flame with the Maha Chohan”

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Author:Elizabeth Clare Prophet

“Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.”

World May Children Made Hard Reason Seems Eye Pain Joy Stars Pleasure Behinds Sadness Birth Sorrow Sad Laughter Illusion Built Blind Mask Appetite Temperament Coarse Callous Birth Of A Child

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I was a poster child... for birth control!”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.”

Children Rooms Birth Abortion Genocide Birth Control

Author:Dorothy Day

“Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.”

Children Girl Tree Birth Empowerment India Celebrate Village Girl Child

Author:Narendra Modi

“But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.”

Children Doe Science Dies Poverty Generations Cold Birth Plant Climate Soil Severe

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while the parents reside there under the protection of the government, and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth.”

Children Country Government Law Parent Born Common Subjects Birth Protection Doctrine Aliens Temporary Allegiance Owing Common Law

Author:St. George Tucker

“Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.”

Knows Children Girl Nice Wonderful Birth Lovely Plenty Intercourse Birth Control Lovely Things Nice Girl

Author:Bob Marley

“Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.”

Giving Children Stars Black Sun Tree Creation Birth Mountain All Things Fishes Holes Snow Galaxy Whales Black Hole Lava Microorganisms

Author:Matthew Fox

“(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.”

Firsts Children Birth Parenting Cartoon Caption

Author:James Thurber

“When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.”

Giving Children Self Creation Birth Bloody

Author:Ezra Miller

“In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.”

Ifs Giving Children Week Return Birth Normal East Germany Housewife Giving Birth Working Life East Germany

Author:Christian Schwochow

“Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.”

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Author:Sophy Burnham

“In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.”

Giving Children Important Greater Birth Raising Children Giving Birth Taiwan

Author:Chien-Ming Wang

“It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.”

Giving Children Character Actors Birth Having Children

Author:Kelly Masterson

“So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.”

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Author:Frances Power Cobbe

“The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.”

Children Long States Jobs Young Girl Cities Poverty Crime Birth Truth Is Husband Despair Welfare Young Women Teenage Starks Welfare State Inner City Teenage Girl Wedlock

Book:Libertarianism: A Primer

Source: Libertarianism: A Primer

“We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.”

World Children Culture Birth Our Children

Author:Terence McKenna

“The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.”

“There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project.”

Children Stills Baby Birth Periods Calling Projects Our Children

Author:Paul Reiser

“If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.”

Ifs Men Giving Children Found Birth Propose

Author:Bette Davis

“It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.”

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Author:Michael Franti

“My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?”

“I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you."”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.”

People May Children Might Able Parent Technology Support Groups Influence Information Birth Easier Drug Medical Defects Support Groups Birth Defects

Author:Steve Jobs

“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”

Children Littles Science Death Dies Born Natural Dying Birth Painful Infant Painful Death

Author:Francis Bacon

“The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.”

Ifs Children Space Pieces Birth Planning Vaccines Save A Life Family Planning

Author:Melinda Gates

“My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.”

Children Sometimes Kids Wanted Teach Birth Dad My Dad Grandmother Frustrated My Grandmother Passed Away

Author:Dakota Fanning

“When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable.”

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Author:Caitlin Moran

“Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.”

Giving Firsts Children Book Home Given Talking Havens Birth Letting Go Our Children Your Children Publishing Giving Birth

Author:Alejandro Zambra

“Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another.”

People Knows World Way Mean Children Use Age Purpose Force Poor Plans Birth Habit Do You Know Sole Poor People Old Habits

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot of people believe it. It's not in the 14th Amendment. You know where it is? It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.”

Firsts Children Mother Names Powerful Birth Medicine Birth Mother

Author:Erykah Badu

“It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.”

Children Feelings Fall Birth Seconds Refocus

Author:David Bowie

“[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.”

Believe Children Ideas Poverty Birth Circumstances

Author:Barack Obama

“Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play.”

Thinking Children Play Character Given Loss Birth Easier Moved Loss Of A Child Birth Of A Child

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how do they give and receive love, what the passions of their life, how does their birth order and their gender affect them because all of those things are part of the tapestry that God is weaving together to use each of our children for His glory.”

Giving Kind Children Doe Use Kids Together Order Passion Given Birth Findings Glory Our Children Gender Tapestry Weaving Giving And Receiving

Author:Stephen Kendrick

“I'm always amazed to hear my more conservative colleagues talking about how they care about life. They're pro-life, but when it comes down to safe work environments that allow for unions, being able to pay for child care, having family leave - they don't care about any of that. That's where I argue that they're not pro-life, they're pro-birth.”

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Author:Nina Turner

“There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.”

Children Littles House Century Example Birth Spokes Domain Nineteenth Century Birth Of A Child

Author:Simone de Beauvoir