I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

- Allison Anders

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

- Billy Wilder

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

- David Ogilvy

After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'

- Evangeline Lilly

It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.

- Jessica Raine

Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman.

- Jessica Raine

I'm obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.'

- Melissa McCarthy

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

- Matthew Morrison

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

- Norman Lamm

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

- Stephen Spender