Birth Quote by Adrienne Rich

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

— Ina May Gaskin

Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world…

— Sheila Kitzinger

They say that the essence of being a woman is to give birth

— Ritu Ghatourey

Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold…

— Jalaja Bonheim

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

— Michel Odent

“A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to…

— John Stevenson

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

Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies.…

— Marsden Wagner

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

— Peter Kreeft

Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such…

— Elizabeth Noble

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

— Gelett Burgess

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we…

— Michel Odent