Quotes of Midwife - somelinesforyou

“ I am a publisher-a hybrid creature: one part stargazer, one part gambler, one part businessman, one part midwife and three parts optimist. ”

- Cass Canfield

“ A thing like Interlingua just can't be the job of one man. And I still think it's a rather nice metaphor and one that satisfies my vanity completely if we agree that I was the midwife of Interlingua. ”

- Alexander Gode

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

- David Ogilvy

“ The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action… ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women, silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe. ”

- Adrienne Rich
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