It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born.

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.

The only significant effect of continuous electronic fetal monitoring was an increase in the cesarean rate.

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman

Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.