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It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.

Ina May Gaskin

It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Brave Men
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Birth Moose Pregnancy
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
INA MAY GASKIN

Intuition Knows Needs
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
A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so.
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Baby Differences Mother
It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
INA MAY GASKIN

Easy Nice Scare
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.
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Common People Sense Thinking
Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
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Boss Country People Want World
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
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
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Birth Men Uterus
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
Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
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Moose Pregnancy Thinking
Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.
INA MAY GASKIN

Giving Impact Mind
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?
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Members Previously Should Skills
Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
INA MAY GASKIN

Earthquake Law Mother
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKIN

Chicken Country Hero People

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