Birth Midwifery Quotes

#1. I was reflecting, in the first place," replied Dantes, " upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained. What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?

Alexandre Dumas

#2. When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother.
How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother
and as a parent.
Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.

Ruth Ehrhardt

#3. You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael'. 'I knew Sammael'. 'The angel Gabriel did my hair'. It's like I'm with the Band with biblical figures.

Cassandra Clare

#4. You have your own room in my heart. It's yours. Stay as long as you want; it will always be there for you.

Penny Reid

#5. It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#6. 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.

Marsden Wagner

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

Marsden Wagner

#8. The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.

Sheila Stubbs

#9. Dad was thirsty, not given to great displays of affection, like his father and his father's father before him. A long line of self-indulgent men who couldn't give love but lived to take it, which isn't the same as receiving it. They were all in so much pain and that's always the perfect excuse.

Courtney Summers

#10. If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

Ami McKay

#11. If we put aside the practicality, we may find our wishes to be very innocent.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#12. I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.

Celeste Ng

#13. $13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

Frank A. Oski

#14. Power is neither good nor evil.

Kami Garcia

#15. For us mortals, love is greater than justice.

Melanie Dickerson

#16. Hate destroys EVERYTHING except itself. Everything. Including you.

Tanya Masse

#17. A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder

Alfred Hitchcock

#18. Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

William Shatner