„Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.“

— Sigmund Freud

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„A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to … emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.“
— Paul Valéry
„Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.“
— Ambrose Bierce