Midwife Quotes
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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 -
Adversity is the midwife of genius.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
Jean Renoir -
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.
William Shakespeare -
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Stephen Spender -
I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
Erykah Badu -
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher -
Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.
Isabella Lovin