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.

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.

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

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

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

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.