20 Midwife Quotes for You to Enjoy

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. Johannes Kepler

Truth Time Truth Is Daughter Shame Feel Being Midwife Her

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Billy Wilder

Director Must Policeman Midwife

There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young. Azzedine Alaia

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Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife. Carolyn Murphy

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The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. George Saunders

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Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people. Greg Grandin

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Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose, and she taught us how to be valiant in the face of oppression. Harry Belafonte

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I love 'Call the Midwife'; it's an absolute gem of a programme. Filming the Christmas special and then the second series felt like going back to a boarding school that you really love and is full of friends. Helen George

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I have always appreciated vintage clothing, but after working on 'Call the Midwife' for six months, I love moving away from vintage in my day-to-day wear. Jessica Raine

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It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife. Jessica Raine

You Women Amazing Tell Opens Up Just Them Midwife Played

I'm obsessed with that show 'Call The Midwife'. Although I had to take a break at a certain point in my pregnancy because every episode is about having babies. Lennon Parham

Every Babies About Having Point Take Had Obsessed Call Although Because Break Midwife Pregnancy Episode Certain Certain Point Show

Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind. Louis MacNeice

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My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think. Matthew Morrison

Think Nurse About Only Male Midwife Dad

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin. Norman Lamm

Law School Fraternal Law School Midwife Twin

I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way. Sarah Wayne Callies

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature. Simon Helberg

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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. Stephen Spender

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