Quotes About Midwifery

#1. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

Michel Odent

#2. $13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

Frank A. Oski

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.

Jennifer Worth

#6. 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

#7. I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

Ina May Gaskin

#8. Your mind is beautiful. No matter what problems people say you have, every mind is capable of writing something inspiring and beautiful.

B.A. Gabrielle

#9. Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.

Ronald Reagan

#10. 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

#11. I dream that someday I will meet her and that thought brings tears to my eyes, still. I imagine her in my mind and I dream of that moment.

Julie Watson

#12. Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

William Hazlitt

#13. The person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

Letitia Baldrige

#14. English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Vivien Leigh

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

Marsden Wagner

#16. 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

#17. It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.

Monique Lhuillier

#18. They focused a large amount of their wrath on people trying to add dialogue about feminism and diversity in gaming, condemning them as "Social Justice Warriors." (That label was always so weird to me, because how is that an insult? "Social Justice Warrior" actually sounds pretty badass.)

Felicia Day

#19. There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

Ina May Gaskin

#20. In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

C.S. Lewis

#21. 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