“The pride of any mother is to give birth to a responsible and successful child.”

“Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.”

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but… life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“The Tao is called the Great Mother:
empty yet inexhaustible,
it gives birth to infinite worlds.”

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

“The essence of our nature is to give birth, not to destroy. To create. We see this in the love of mother and child and in the love of artist for his or her art. The dilemma is that the very powers we possess for creativity can just as easily become employed to destroy with.”

“No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. … Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again."”

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”