Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"

Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty.

It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.