I was so surprised at being born that I didn’t speak for a year and a half.

Rita Mae Brown:

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

Madeleine L’Engle:

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

Joyce Armor:

Hard labor:

A redundancy, like “working mother.”

Diana, Princess of Wales:

If men had to have babies they would only ever have one each.

Toi Derricotte:

One pain like this should be enough to save the world forever.

Joan Rivers:

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.