Midwifery Care Quotes

#1. Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery care, but they may in fact be under constant pressure to practice within the techno-medical mode.

Ina May Gaskin

#2. We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.

Chris Frantz

#3. I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

Chris Lowe

#4. $13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

Frank A. Oski

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

Marsden Wagner

#6. I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

Sarah Kane

#7. I closed my eyes and the roof was gone. I could see the stars while the piano tinkled. I could see Jupiter and it was blue, and Neptune was silver like a tennis ball sprayed silver. I could reach out and touch it, like cold water.

Heather O'Neill

#8. Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#9. Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

Madhur Bhandarkar