Humans Quotes by Ina May Gaskin

8 Humans quotes by Ina May Gaskin

Gaskin’s eight short quotes offer a concise, uplifting look at her perspective on the strength and resilience of people.

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“Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The…

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Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds…

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It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on…

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Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

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The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults…

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We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But…

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“our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.”

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The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on…

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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

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“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…

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I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems…

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