Quotes About Birth

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

I left Egypt in 1969 for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been on the faculty at Caltech for 37 years and carried dual citizenship for 31. But my commitment to the country of my birth never wavered.

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

Only Spartan women give birth to real men.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.

Men hand out cigars. Women 'hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.