It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. – MrsE.B. Duffey, What Women Should Know, 1873
A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die. – Attributed to Mary Mason, also Monica Mason and Mary Manson (Anyone know where I
We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love. – Grantly Dick-Read
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Ambrose Bierce
