There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.

As a midwife, I am immersed in Oxytocin day and night.

I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.

Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.

I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species.

Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love, and when we hug, and BIRTH is the biggest brightest time of rich oxytocin-sharing.

Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim --

They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason.

He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

Courage is not a matter of gender.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.