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Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.Margaret Mitchell
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Just as a child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, so is grace freely given by God, in sacred moment of salvation.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Just as a child is freely given, so is God's grace.Lailah Gifty Akita
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We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.Lailah Gifty Akita
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A child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, in sacred moment of conception.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Men die in battle women die in childbirth.Philippa Gregory
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War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.Margaret Mitchell
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When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.Nicholas D. Kristof
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My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.Philippa Gregory
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She is emerging (she has no choice) / into a place / like sex or childbirth, / one thing to the observer, something very different to the participant.Kathleen Ossip
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The wonder of the womb is the birth of a child.Lailah Gifty Akita
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All times are connected. Treasure each moment.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The wonder of life begins in the womb of a woman.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Holy moment is a sacred existence.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But use it for experience. Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.. And another thing let it do. There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is not room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw today, so come Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors. Let the memory direct your dealings with men and women. And be sure to take good care of Mama. Is it? .Richard Llewellyn
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The health of your future kids does not start with their birth–it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.Pratik Patil
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She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to make herself heard. She knew how to reach out and latch on. She knew what she needed to do to survive. I didn’t know how it was possible that such perfection could have developed within a body as flawed as my own, but when I looked into her face, I saw that it clearly was. .Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors.Richard Llewellyn
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I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.Anita Diamant
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Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smile, and in her wordless expression I saw gratitude, and relief, and trust. I wanted, desperately, not to disappoint her.Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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I heard a baby cry. And this blood-splattered thing was put in my arms. My child. And, at that moment, it was like a gigantic plug appeared and - POW! - I was plugged into humanity in a way I'd never been before. Never could be. I was part of all mothers and all births from the beginning of time. I was a woman in a mud hut in Africa, in an igloo in the Arctic, a wigwam in America, a cave, a skyscraper, a spaceship. I was part of a flow and that flow was blood - .Philip Ridley
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Her time has come, " answered Miss Lizzie. "That's why I didn't marry Harvey - long ago when he asked me. I was afraid of 'that'. So afraid." "I don't know, " Miss Lizzie said. "Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be safe." She waited until the next scream died away. "At least she knows she's living.Betty Smith
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He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child? The gentle, smiling ones own the good secret. Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make flesh that holds fast and binds eternity.Ray Bradbury
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On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.Bruce Willis