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“Then there were those girls who became midwives: girls who could not get enough of the tiniest of babies - girls who would grow…

— Chris Bohjalian

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in…

— Liya Kebede

“Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold prenatal care…

— Susan McCutcheon

“Odd that you should choose to be a midwife, having never experienced birth yourself.” In other circumstances the words would have stung. She thought,…

— Roberta Rich

In obstetrics and gynecology, the term abortionist is still a dirty word.

— Joe Thompson

“When ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) claims that home birth and midwives are unsafe, they imply that the women who choose it…

— Jennifer Block

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician'…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch…

— Ina May Gaskin

What I've learnt is that being a midwife is not a job about cute babies. And as a maternity care assistant there's a lot…

— Emma Willis

“We must always remember that we are only midwives—if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.”

— Diana Athill

In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to…

— Adrienne Rich

“It makes me really sad that women have been ejected from the seat of their power in this society in terms of what happens…

— Ani DiFranco