Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Noble

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an author Elizabeth Noble.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Elizabeth Noble

Elizabeth Noble is the author of seven novels: The Reading Group, The Friendship Test, Alphabet Weekends, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Girl Next Door, The Way We Were and Between a Mother and Her Child, all of which have reached The Sunday Times Top 10 best sellers. Her novel The Reading Group reached number one.

Author | Born: 1945
Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.
Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.
Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.
However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness. — © Elizabeth Noble
However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.
It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.
Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones.
Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.
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