When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
INA MAY GASKINThe way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
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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.
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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.
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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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Birth Matters… It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother’s bodies. It’s the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world.
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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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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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