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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

Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
INA MAY GASKIN

Intuition Knows Needs
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Impression Mean Mother
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
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
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
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
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
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
INA MAY GASKIN

Forget Humor Labor Sense
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
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
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
If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Goddess Looks
Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world, so it is worth our while to provide the best possible care for mothers and babies throughout this extraordinarily influential part of life.
INA MAY GASKIN

Beginning Extraordinary Good Throughout
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Elephant Pregnancy Thinking
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

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

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