History Quotes / DeathByChildbirth

-->-'''Dr. Ball''', ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', about Padme Amidala in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

->''Men say that women's lives are without danger''\\
''They stay at home while their husbands go to war''\\
''False! I'd rather stand ten times behind the shield-wall''\\
''In battle than but once carry a child.''

->''But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame''\\
''Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same;''\\
''And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail;''\\
''The female of the species must be [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale deadlier than the male]]''.\\

''She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast''\\
''May not deal in doubt or pity--must not swerve for fact or jest.''\\
''These be purely male diversions--not in these her honour dwells--''\\
''She is the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.''

-->-- ''Morsel'' [[https://tapas.io/episode/60072 page #11]]

->'''Tauza:''' You are the product of a [[LizardFolk Scarran]] male, and a [[HumanAlien Sebacean]] female. [[MoralEventHorizon The]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil mating process]] shattered her fragile psyche: during the gestation she pleaded for death.

->''"She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, [[LampshadeHanging as anybody might expect]], she [[DefiedTrope still lived on]]--lived to have six children more--to see them growing up around her, and to enjoy excellent health herself."''
-->-- '''Creator/JaneAusten''', ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey''

->''Men say that women's lives are without danger''
->''They stay at home while their husbands go to war''
->''False! I'd rather stand ten times behind the shield-wall''
->''In battle than but once carry a child.''

->'''Elizabeth''': So, Mr. [=DeWitt=], is there a woman in your life?
->'''Booker''': There was. She died.
->'''Elizabeth''': How?
->'''Booker''': Giving birth.
->'''Elizabeth''': Oh... You have a child?
->'''Booker''': [[ShootTheShaggyDog No.]]

''The female of the species must be [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale deadlier than the male]]''.

->''She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast''\\

''May not deal in doubt or pity--must not serve for fact or jest.''\\

-->--Randyll Tarly, ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

->'''Tauza:''' Your birth was... difficult. ''You'' killed her.

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-->-'''Dr. Ball''', ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''

-->-'''Dr. Ball''', ''RobotChicken''

->'''Tauza:''' You are the product of a [[LizardFolk Scarran]] male, and a [[HumanAlien Sebacean]] female. [[MoralEventHorizon The]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil mating]] [[NightmareFuel process]] shattered her fragile psyche: during the gestation she pleaded for death.

->'''Tauza:''' You are the product of a [[LizardFolk Scarran]] male, and a [[HumanAlien Sebacean]] female. [[MoralEventHorizon The]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil mating]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel process]] shattered her fragile psyche: during the gestation she pleaded for death.

->'''[[CompleteMonster Tauza]]:''' Your birth was... difficult. ''You'' killed her.

-->--'''{{Medea}}'''

-->--''{{Farscape}}'', "Incubator"

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