This collection holds 65 childbirth quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Judith Kelman, Ryan North and Joan Rivers.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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A mother never fully delivers.

It turns out childbirth is really... messy.

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!

I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Mimicking childbirth on 'Grey's' has taken the mystery out of it.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Protecting the lives of women in childbirth and in their postpartum months should be a common priority.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring.

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

Personally, I would miss a wedding. I would miss childbirth. I would miss a bar mitzvah just to see me talk at all.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

Childbirth and being pregnant is something that I've always wanted. I feel like you feel the most feminine; you look the most feminine.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

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

People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the two because they are both pure agony.

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

War and armed conflict disproportionately affect women and can turn what is supposed to be a joyous and beautiful experience - childbirth - into a horrific or even fatal one.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

My only opinion on childbirth is not to have an opinion, and not to judge. We're all different and anything can happen when it comes to labour: you just don't know until you get there.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

We can change our lives for the better, and always have. We used to think pain during surgery and dying during childbirth were inevitable. We no longer accept that, and we shouldn't just accept aging.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.

When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

I didn't know that women go through a vocal change, which is called 'thickening'. Basically, it's like when your body gets ready for childbirth, and so it just grows in a weird way. When I figured that out, I was frustrated with it.

It makes no sense to spend precious resources on propping up loss-making, state-owned enterprises when they could be used to get more children into school or provide more midwives to reduce the number of mothers dying in childbirth.

I genuinely believe that, physically and emotionally, women are far stronger than men. The amount of pain they have to endure for a childbirth, a man cannot take an ounce of it. A toothache or a stomach upset is the end of our world at times.

I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more.

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