(113 quotes found)
“I think these folks have been very real. When you have a birth of a baby, when you have to travel with your work, when you have stress because there's changes of jobs at your household and when you have struggled because your family doesn't want to eat what you want, that is reality.”
Patti Milligan
“So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - thi”
Thomas Wolfe
“You don't realize this when you're giving birth but you instantly know it when you assess your life,”
Reese Witherspoon
“[For instance, there is a direct link between infant mortality and premature birth. Clearly the more premature an infant is when he is born, the greater likelihood of complications. In fact, according to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services National Center for Health Statistics, complications stemming from short gestation and low birth weight are the second leading causes of infant mortality in the United States. Ironically, the advanced medical technologies used in the United States tend to increase our infant mortality rate, not decrease it. In the United States, advanced technologies and procedures have made it more practical in recent years for medical professionals to attempt to save severely premature infants. Such attempts do not always succeed, adding to the rate of infant mortality.] Resuscitation is more likely to be attempted on extremely premature babies born in the United States than in many other countries, ... The extremely premature babies on whom resuscitation is unsuccessful are then counted as infant deaths, whereas they are counted as fetal deaths when resuscitation has not been attempted.”
John Abramson
“Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.”
Marianne Williamson
“Birth is the beginning of death”
Thomas Fuller
“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“It is almost like giving birth to a newborn baby. I've seen this all before, but only in my mind. And now it's real.”
Tony Teixeira
“Of course you can talk to the baby after the birth and cuddle them and hold them close.”
Pat Felske
“Most of these women are returning to work anywhere from six to 12 weeks after giving birth. There isn't a lot of research out there on women's general postpartum health, and almost nothing specifically looking at working women.”
Pat McGovern
