All 10 Uses of
midwife
in
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
- How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife.†
Chpt 1
- Macon knew otherwise, because he was there and had seen the eyes of the midwife as his mother's legs collapsed.†
Chpt 1
- I tried to get a midwife for her, but the doctor said midwives were dirty.†
Chpt 3
- I tried to get a midwife for her, but the doctor said midwives were dirty.
Chpt 3 *midwives = a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
- I told him a midwife delivered me, and if a midwife was good enough for my mother, a midwife was good enough for his daughter.†
Chpt 3
- I told him a midwife delivered me, and if a midwife was good enough for my mother, a midwife was good enough for his daughter.†
Chpt 3
- I told him a midwife delivered me, and if a midwife was good enough for my mother, a midwife was good enough for his daughter.†
Chpt 3
- When her baby was born, a girl, the two midwives in attendance were so preoccupied with what was going on between her legs they never even noticed her smooth balloon of a stomach.†
Chpt 5midwives = non-doctors who practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Bewildered and grieving, they went to the house of the closest colored person they knew: Circe, the midwife who had delivered them both and who was there when their mother died and when Pilate was named.†
Chpt 7
- She worked for the Butlers— rich white folks, you know—but she was a good midwife in those days.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth; or to assist in childbirth
or:
someone who helps bring something into existence; or the act of helping to bring something into existence
or:
someone who helps bring something into existence; or the act of helping to bring something into existence