On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

- Bruce Willis

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

- Dakota Fanning

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

- Emo Philips

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

- George Eliot

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

- Germaine Greer

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

- Gloria Steinem

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

- Lauren Holly

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

- Margaret Mead

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

- Wendi Deng Murdoch