People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The birthing journey requires us as women to get back to a sense of life basics where our connection to intuition and… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Before I had my son, I learned that I had previa and he was breach. When this happened, I felt so out… — Emily Carpenter Copy Share Image
Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. — Sarah J. Buckley Copy Share Image
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
“I doubt you would understand what it is like, to watch yourself die more and more each day, while birthing a whole… — Coco Mingolelli Copy Share Image
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other… — Stephen Gaskin Copy Share Image
If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we… — Sarah J. Buckley Copy Share Image
The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The smooth undulating movements of Bellydance for birth aid a woman's ability to deal with her labour in an opening rather than… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
You will never realize your dream by focusing on passion, sucking, brain distracting imaginary and mutating obstacles. Dream birthing is not rational… — Shirley Copy Share Image
The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
“You attend those bogus birthing classes and learn support techniques that you forget the second you’re out the door, because you have… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“Bipedalism is a demanding and risky strategy. It means refashioning the pelvis into a full load-bearing instrument. To preserve the required strength,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“...The premise that birthing, by nature, had to be a painful ordeal was totally unacceptable to me. I could not believe that… — Marie F. Mongan Copy Share Image
