Midwife Quotes

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

Society, Passion, Thought

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

Director, Policeman

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

Living, Except, Mine

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Johannes Kepler

Time, Truth, Her

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.
George Saunders

Job, May, Artist

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

Dad, Nurse, Male

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?
Michael Gove

Why, Child, Theatre

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

Amazing, Giving, Done

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

School, Law, Twin

I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.
Sarah Wayne Callies

Business, Grateful, Easy

Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.
Deborah Harkness

Time, Bored, Thought

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

Justice, Criticism, Critic

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