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Midwife Quotes

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain. Clifton Fadiman
Stephen Spender quote: "There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a..."
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. Stephen Spender
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep. William Shakespeare
She took refuge in her newborn son. she had felt him leave her body with a sensation of relief at freeing herself from something that did not belong to her and she had been horrified at herself when she confirmed that she did not feel the slightest affection for that calf from her womb the midwife showed her in the raw, smeared with grease and blood and with the umbilical cord rolled around his neck. But in her lonliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You are a midwife, assisting at someone else's birth. Do good without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought to be happening. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say, "We did it ourselves! Lao Tzu
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. Carolyn Murphy
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. Eric Hoffer
Billy Wilder quote: "A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a..."
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Billy Wilder
David Ogilvy quote: "Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the..."
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. David Ogilvy
Norman Lamm quote: "I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin."
I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin. Norman Lamm
Johannes Kepler quote: "Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being..."
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. Johannes Kepler

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