The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times - Jennifer Worth

This quote was added by practiseaccount
I have a theory that all human babies are born prematurely. Given the human life span - three score years and ten - to be comparable with other animals of similar longevity, human gestation should be about two years. But the human head is so big by the age of two that no woman could deliver it. So our babies are born prematurely, in a state of utter helplessness.

Train on this quote


Rate this quote:
3.7 out of 5 based on 22 ratings.

Edit Text

Edit author and title

(Changes are manually reviewed)

or just leave a comment:


bvw 1 year, 4 months ago
Great woman, great realist of a historian of Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Incredibly heart reading stories of the East End. Call the Midwife and such.

Test your skills, take the Typing Test.

Score (WPM) distribution for this quote. More.

Best scores for this typing test

Name WPM Accuracy
wolfram 143.63 95.1%
zhengfeilong 137.65 99.5%
zhengfeilong 136.51 96.6%
am4sian 133.82 97.9%
heiga 133.08 99.2%
gbzaid 132.95 99.5%
zhengfeilong 128.28 95.8%
user826590 123.60 97.3%

Recently for

Name WPM Accuracy
nicoqueijo 80.18 97.1%
merritt.kramer 62.47 89.7%
powerraider 64.63 87.4%
placeholder 99.13 98.4%
pushkarmishra 68.67 91.0%
alienateit 80.94 95.8%
dialmora 94.48 97.6%
bossatron 69.23 90.8%