Top 33 Midwife Quotes

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It’s women helping women, believing in them at a time when they’re thinking, ‘Am I ever going to get through this?’

What I’ve learnt is that being a midwife is not a job about cute babies. And as a maternity care assistant there’s a lot of cleaning involved. It’s a vocation.

I have always appreciated vintage clothing, but after working on ‘Call the Midwife’ for six months, I love moving away from vintage in my day-to-day wear.

Because ‘Call The Midwife’ is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it’s not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan’s condition in all its brutal reality.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

I’m obsessed with that show ‘Call The Midwife’. Although I had to take a break at a certain point in my pregnancy because every episode is about having babies.

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

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

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

You wouldn’t tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child’s birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it’s a real doctor… I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you’d think they’d be in nature.

I’m obsessed with ‘Call The Midwife.’

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of ‘War and Peace’ – and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she’s a midwife rather than a surgeon.

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I’ve ever done. I’d been living in a Third World country, and I said, ‘I’m going to just squat behind a tree.’ I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn’t want a sterile hospital room. I didn’t want doctors. I had a midwife.

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.

My own father flipped out on me when I told him we decided to ditch our doctor and go with a midwife instead.

The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator’s role combines those of a ship’s pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.

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?’

My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she needed to make her tinctures.

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

My wife is a midwife, and there’s only so many states where you can do that. Texas is a place where she can work.

Poverty was my mother’s midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose, and she taught us how to be valiant in the face of oppression.

I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn’t acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist.

Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.

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

I really like sitting down with my daughter to watch programmes like ‘Call the Midwife,’ ’24 hours in A&E,’ ‘One Born Every Minute’ and ‘Our Girl.’ It’s just the two of us, which is really nice.

My dad’s an English teacher and my mum’s a midwife. Then my mum’s side of the family are all crazy creative.

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

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

You have that first joy of finding work, and then to become part of a show like ‘Call the Midwife’ – which I have watched religiously with my mum since it started -is doubly brilliant.