A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.
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.
I” gives birth to mind; Mind gives birth to ego, Ego gives birth to sense of separation, From where originates suffering and sorrow.
I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin.
Today, what's normal is being redefined: from vaginal birth to surgical birth; from 'My water broke,' to 'Let's break your water;' from 'It's time' to 'It's time for the induction.' As medical anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd writes, 'in the early t...
Birth is the only remedy against death.
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
The pumpkin gives birth and the fence has the trouble.
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.
The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.
Nobility of soul is more honorable than nobility of birth.
One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
We're more effective than birth control pills.
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.
No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
