Mother Quotes by Ina May Gaskin

9 Mother quotes by Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin’s nine mother‑centric snippets are concise, nurturing, and grounded in lived experience. She shares gentle wisdom in a compact form, offering a soothing pause for readers looking for heartfelt insight.

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When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change…

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Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an…

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“When avoidance of pain becomes the major emphasis of childbirth care, the paradoxical effect is that more women have to deal with…

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A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions…

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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order…

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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives…

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I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that…

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Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's…

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“This means that most of the births they have seen were to women on epidurals lying still during labor, waiting for it…

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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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“I have felt incredible energy and life force through my body, and I have really been reborn a happier, healthier, and more confident person.…

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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 Creator is…

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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…

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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…

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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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