Best Ina May Gaskin Quotes
- Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and… Ancient
- Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't. Creation
- 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 from… All
- If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right. Birth
- I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to… Baby
- Let your monkey do it. Birth
- Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know Ask
- It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it. Easy
- Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor. Bring
- Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor,… Assume
- The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression… Adults
- The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We… Any
- The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Careless
- We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it.… Ability
- We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other. Each
- I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad. Anyone
- The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run… Best