We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.

Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.

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

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception.

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

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.