#midwife

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#action #directly #dispense #marks #midwife

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#critic #criticism #justice #like #midwife

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#i #law #law school #midwife #school

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#amazing thing #basically #been #behind #birth

As for your punishment, Midwife, you’ll receive the standard penalty for treason. We’re disbarring you from Our psyche. Put him on the next neurotransmitter bound for the temporal lobe. He can spend the rest of his days quivering in fear and wavering between short and long-term memory. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #midwifery #treason #funny

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing. ↗

— Ami McKay

#homebirth #inspirational #life #midwifery #political

Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. ↗

— Ina May Gaskin

#childbirth #midwifery #life

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we ↗

— Ina May Gaskin

#midwifery #poppin-out-babies #men

I'm falling in love with you. What else do you want?' 'That feeling....like your drowning under the weight of it-love, passion. Like you would die for each other.' 'that's the stuff of nonsense. It's for novels and the pictures. It's not real Jenny. What we can have, that's what's real. A home, a family, a good life together.' 'You think I haven't thought that, tried to make it enough? You are a wonderful man, Jimmy, and I... Everything in my brain is telling me that this is the right thing' 'then what else?' 'my heart wants what it had before.' 'before? What, this... Phantom love?How could I not know? You look at me and there's someone else you want to see. For me, it's just you. So that's it? Your shutting yourself off to everything else because of something you can never have. We could have enough, Jenny.' 'Well for a year, perhaps, before you realised you loved more than I did you. I would hate that. That's why you'll be my friend but never my soulmate. And we both deserve soulmates. ↗

— Jennifer Worth

#old-love #family

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#daughter #feel #her #i #i feel