Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to… — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image
A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I know now that the Spirit is trying to birth something in my life when I find myself craving silence and darkness,… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
How to you teach someone that a theatre comes about first as an idea, from an individual who has a philosophy and… — Robert Kalfin Copy Share Image
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back… — Michel Odent 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
I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with that show 'Call The Midwife'. Although I had to take a break at a certain point in my pregnancy… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be… — Naomi Klein 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
I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
“ Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet . Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm… — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
