Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old midwife quotes, midwife sayings, and midwife proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.Robin Lim
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In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.Sheila Kitzinger
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Adversity is the midwife of genius.Napoleon Bonaparte
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A lonely autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!Mehmet Murat ildan
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The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.Philip Kitcher
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.Alain De Botton
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
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Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth. Matthew Henry
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.Ram Dass
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The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.Sheila Stubbs
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It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.Barbara Katz Rothman
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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.Plato
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Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born.Stephen Jenkinson
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Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. Jonathan Schattke
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action. Eric Hoffer
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The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.Meša Selimović
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The midwife knows that when there is no pain, the way for the baby cannot be opened and the mother cannot give birth. Likewise, for a new Self to be born, hardship is necessary.Elif Shafak
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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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No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.Daniel Inouye
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Meditation is the womb of our actions; action the midwife of our meditations.Arthur Warwick
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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.Jennifer Worth
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Genetic engineering is the midwife of a brave new world of environmentally-engineered plagues totally unimaginable in the past. From an evolutionary view, these developments may be the last round.Michio Kushi
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Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.Karl Marx
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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.Johannes Kepler
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.Dan Simmons
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How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.Michael J. Gelb
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Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.John Dewey
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We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.Julia Cameron
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In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.Shiel Kitzinger