“In the movies when people have babies, particularly in television films, when they’re in a hospital room – there’s flowers everywhere and they’re all powdered and made-up magically. They have baby and it’s all really lovely and they start getting pink baby clothes and it’s all just flowers. Anyone who has been in that zone – even I’d suggest anyone who’s been to visit someone who’s in that zone – will know that that is fiction. It’s a truly, truly murderous business, giving birth, and it’s violent. It’s a violent place to go.”

Tilda Swinton, on child birth

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