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“Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.”

Mother Values Growing Up Growing Generations Birth Jokes Traditional Traditional Values

Author:Janet McTeer

“Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld. I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be. And I think, as long as there's provision for the life of the mother, then that's something that should be done.”

Thinking Should Long Done Mother Birth Abortion Provision Bans

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”

Knows Said Humor Funny Mother Father Birth Easier Hundred Dollars Father Son

Author:Rita Rudner

“Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.”

Mother Given Land Pride Birth Motherland

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Children Stills Self Whole Seems Mother Individual Results Creative Evolution Birth Mass Conscious Consequence Blind Impulse Rebirth Self Conscious Creative Work

Book:journal

Source: journal

“Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation”

Giving Mother Nations Birth Promise Give Me Educated Civilized

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.”

Giving Writing Children Whole Motivational Together Mother Left Cutting Poet Birth Bigger Meaningful Arise Islands Dancer Meaningless Isolated Not Alone Left Alone

Author:Rajneesh

“Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.”

Knows World Giving Important War Done Jobs Form Mother Force Pay Generations Sacrifice Birth Picks Labor Clean Sorry Cooks Nurse Diapers Important Jobs Zips Cheap Labor Labor Force

Author:Joanna Russ

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.”

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Book:A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization

Source: A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization

“I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.”

Mother Birth Tests Abortion Injury Exception

Author:John F. Kerry

“I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.”

Mother Next Born Poor Doors Birth Tables Kitchen Kitchen Table

Author:Mel Brooks

“Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.”

“When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.”

Giving Two Mother Born Existence Baby Birth Former Womb

Author:Marianne Williamson

“It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.”

Men Kind Earth Mother Found Born Enemy Birth Elements

Author:Pliny the Elder

“While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.”

People Needs Humans I Can Mother Father Birth Universal Constant I Realized Analyzing Human Needs Immaturity

Author:Anais Nin

“I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.”

“If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.”

Ifs Giving Mother Father Birth Honor Our Future Mother And Father

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, 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." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."”

People Looks Children Stills Bigs Care Kids Mother Father Parent Love You Birth Bases Take Care Bunch Contact Hopefully Adoption Day To Day Take Care Of Me Birth Mother Open Adoption

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.”

World Giving Children Country Care Faces Mother Sound Challenges Lines Birth Healthy Developing Assured Giving Birth Indicators Healthy Children

Book:Letters From Burma:

Source: Letters From Burma:

“Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.”

Feels Joy Mother Wise Son Birth Mother And Son

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”

Should Looks Kind Facts Mother Girl Social Causes Birth Disease Shadow Acknowledge Hypocrisy Enlightened Facts Of Life Birth Control Impunity Unmarried

Book:A Matter of Life and Death

Source: A Matter of Life and Death

“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.”

Men Way Children Ends Mother Wife Birth Husband Conflict Stress Including Shock Exhausted Husband And Wife Unprecedented Drained Birth Of A Child

Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

“Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“If anyone does not in accord with the Holy Fathers acknowledge the holy and ever virgin and immaculate Mary was really and truly the Mother of God, inasmuch as she, in the fullness of time,and without seed, conceived by the Holy Spirit, God in the Word Himself, who before all time was born of God the Father, and without loss of integrity brought Him forth, and after His birth preserved her virginity inviolate, let him be condemned.”

Ifs Doe Spirit Mother Father Born Religious Loss Birth Integrity Holy Seeds All Time Acknowledge Holy Spirit Mary Virgins Fullness Accord Virginity Virgin Mary Immaculate

Author:Pope Martin I

“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.”

World Giving Humans Moments Light Mother Force Birth That Moment Limbs Giving Birth Great Mother

Book:Lady of Avalon

Source: Lady of Avalon

“. . . 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.”

Giving Mother Turns Birth Letting Go Labor Rehearsal

Author:Susan Piver

“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

“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.”

Ifs World Giving Said Ideas Mother Natural Wonderful Birth Contrary Makeup Rainbow Childbirth Unicorn Hyper Giving Birth Wonderful Places Without Makeup Natural Childbirth

Author:Robin Williams

“If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.”

Ifs Matter Mother Birth Europe Rate Injury Hospitals Infection Complication Admission Midwife Cesarean

Author:Ina May Gaskin

“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

“I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out with your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born.”

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.”

Mother Simple Birth Explanation

Author:James Whistler

“Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.”

Trying Mother Turns Birth Prove Intellect Misogyny Virgins Papa Virgin Birth

Book:For Love Alone

Source: For Love Alone

“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