The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth.… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight. — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right. — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know. — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the world scene, having existed for barely two centuries. This… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad. — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“I have felt incredible energy and life force through my body, and I have really been reborn a happier, healthier, and more confident person.… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
