Journeys are the midwives of thought.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

— Alain de Botton

“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. There is an almost…

— Alain de Botton

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.

— Georges St-Pierre

The people that we sometimes start our journeys with are not the people we end the journeys with.

— Shervin Pishevar

“The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go... B”

— Nicholas Sparks

I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.

— Sissy Spacek

“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…

— Ina May Gaskin

“Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold prenatal care…

— Susan McCutcheon

“We must always remember that we are only midwives—if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.”

— Diana Athill

I had such a nurturing team of midwives looking after me with my first little girl, and their support gave me so much confidence…

— Katie Piper

“Midwives do not fear life.”

— Anita Diamant

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

— Barbara Katz Rothman

Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.

— Isabella Lovin

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in…

— Liya Kebede

When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch…

— Ina May Gaskin