Favorite Quotes
Birth was, and will always be, the most commonplace of miracles - an event at once familiar and phenomenal, timeless and immediate, briefly making angels of us all. -Call the Midwife (PBS)
A woman in birth is at once her most powerful, and most vulnerable. But any woman who has birthed unhindered understands that we are stronger than we know. -Marcie Macari
A woman, as long as she lives, will remember how she was made to feel at her birth. -Anna Verwaal
Women's strongest feelings, positive and negative, focus on the way they were treated by their caregivers. -Annie Kennedy and Penny Simkin
When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs - in the service of birthing women, not their master. -Dr. Christiane Northrup
Our body-wisdom knows how to birth a baby. What is required of the woman who births naturally is for her to surrender to this body-wisdom. You can't think your way through a birth, and you can't fake it. -Leslie McIntyre
There is a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation. -Pamela Nadav
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. -Sarah Buckley
There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it; it simply invades them. -Sheryl Feldman
People talk about how painful contractions are because they're so strong. But what we want women to know is that the strength of that contraction is the strength of their own bodies. They are as strong as the contraction is. And so they are able to manage it. -Erin Fullam
Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. -Ina May Gaskin
Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn’t dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom to your time line. -Gloria Lemay
The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to disempower and violate women. -Mary Rucklos Hampton
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. -Eleanor Roosevelt
We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love. -Dr. Grantly Dick-Read
Birth isn't something we suffer, but something we actively do, and exalt in! -Sheila Kitzinger
Birth matters. It brings us into being, on many levels. -Ananda Lowe
A woman in birth is at once her most powerful, and most vulnerable. But any woman who has birthed unhindered understands that we are stronger than we know. -Marcie Macari
A woman, as long as she lives, will remember how she was made to feel at her birth. -Anna Verwaal
Women's strongest feelings, positive and negative, focus on the way they were treated by their caregivers. -Annie Kennedy and Penny Simkin
When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs - in the service of birthing women, not their master. -Dr. Christiane Northrup
Our body-wisdom knows how to birth a baby. What is required of the woman who births naturally is for her to surrender to this body-wisdom. You can't think your way through a birth, and you can't fake it. -Leslie McIntyre
There is a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation. -Pamela Nadav
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. -Sarah Buckley
There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it; it simply invades them. -Sheryl Feldman
People talk about how painful contractions are because they're so strong. But what we want women to know is that the strength of that contraction is the strength of their own bodies. They are as strong as the contraction is. And so they are able to manage it. -Erin Fullam
Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. -Ina May Gaskin
Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn’t dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom to your time line. -Gloria Lemay
The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to disempower and violate women. -Mary Rucklos Hampton
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. -Eleanor Roosevelt
We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love. -Dr. Grantly Dick-Read
Birth isn't something we suffer, but something we actively do, and exalt in! -Sheila Kitzinger
Birth matters. It brings us into being, on many levels. -Ananda Lowe
