Quotes About Birth-giving

It made her furious. All Kareen's courage of endurance had given her nothing. Lady Vorpatril's brave and bloody birth-giving was taken for granted, but whack off some idiot's head and you were really somebody, by God--!

Lying down, I close my eyes.  I see an abyss that opens vertiginously, like an endless pit that deepens, looking into a kind of uncontrollable water, which widens itself with hallucinatory speed, and I'm dragged into this movement; delirium of simplest cosmogony, a birth-giving abyss indefinitely itself.