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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.

Ina May Gaskin

In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.
INA MAY GASKIN

Accuracy Order Scientist
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Culture Way
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Energym Out
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKIN

Chicken Country Hero People
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Men Uterus
Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
INA MAY GASKIN

Boss Country People Want World
I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Mom Powerful
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
INA MAY GASKIN

Forget Humor Labor Sense
I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Birth Relaxation
When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
INA MAY GASKIN

Body Doubt Ideas
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
INA MAY GASKIN

Home Needs Running
Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?
INA MAY GASKIN

Members Previously Should Skills
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
INA MAY GASKIN

Brave Mad People
I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.
INA MAY GASKIN

Common People Sense Thinking
It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.
INA MAY GASKIN

Health Important Mind
Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
INA MAY GASKIN

Creation Matter Nutrition

If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.

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