If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby.

Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.

Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

You haunt me. You alone. You're my fire. I'm your air." Nathaniel to Amelia

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.

You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

I'm no different than any other expendable player.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Life, love, boys—it was all about balance. ~Anna Percy