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  • The midwife of history is violence.

  • 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.

    Doctors   Play   Roles  
    "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.
  • How to you teach someone that a theatre comes about first as an idea, from an individual who has a philosophy and a passion? That a theatre's idea is its heart and individual soul? That the person who creates it must have the desire not only to create work, but also to create the conditions in which that work can live-and in which others can do it as well? How do you teach someone to want to be a midwife as well as a mother.

  • In a nutshell, I am a mom, a grandma, and a midwife.

    Mom   Grandma   Midwife  
    "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

    Queens   Lying   Team  
    'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53
  • A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

  • How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?

  • I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.

    Mom   Firsts   Birth  
    "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

    Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
  • Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she held it up for Alexia to see, rather proudly, as though she'd done all the hard work herself. 'Goodness,' said an exhausted Lady Maccon, 'are babies customarily that repulsive looking?

    Baby   Jobs   Hard Work  
  • There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

    Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.252, Simon and Schuster
  • Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

    Daughter   Mother   Time  
    "The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation" by Shafique N. Virani, (p. 28), 2007.
  • I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

  • After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals and all their technological equipment are destroyed, midwives come in handy. They can help women give birth with or without electricity, running water, equipment - even shelter is optional. When babies are ready, they come.

    Running   Baby   Fall  
    "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

    1987 Response to Adm John M Poindexter and Lt Col Oliver L North's contention that their actions were greatly influenced by 'a dangerous world'. In the NewYork Times, 24 Jul.
  • We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and disease. This concentration is made possible by the common function of nucleic acids as the molecular midwife of all reproductive particles. Indeed it is the nucleic acids which, in spite of their chemical obscurity, are giving to biology a unity which has so far been lacking, a chemical unity.

    Years   Giving   Unity  
  • Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

    Mother   Baby   Pregnancy  
    Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
  • Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

    Book   Dark   Ideas  
    Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

    FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Mar 22, 2015
  • The writer is the midwife of understanding.

    Source: progressive.org
  • There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

    Stephen Spender's lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in "The New York Times", November 20, 1984.
  • Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

    Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.447, VM eBooks
  • I still deliver like a midwife

    Humble   Midwife   Stills  
    Song: Paris Morton Music
  • The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

    Meša Selimović (1999). “The Fortress”, p.13, Northwestern University Press
  • Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.

    Pain   Medicine   Rooms  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

  • Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.

    Children   Pain   Drama  
    "Call the Midwife: The real life heroine behind major new TV series", www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2012.
  • Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

    Reality   Mad   Poet  
    Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.238, Spectra
  • the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.

    Home   Loss   Occupation  
  • Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"

    Funny   Baby   Humor  
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