Quotes of: Maternity Keyword

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

Helen Mirren

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

Chris Hardwick

I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

Karen Armstrong

Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur...

Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or th...

The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Lois McMaster Bujold

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

Liya Kebede

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Mary Shelley

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Benito Mussolini

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

Jessica Capshaw

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

Dan Savage

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

Life

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

Karrie Webb

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

Nicholas D. Kristof

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Hillary Clinton

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

Liya Kebede

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is poss...

Paul Farmer

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

Paul Farmer

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

Sophia Myles

For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.

Elizabeth Price