Midwives Quotes
16 quotes by 12 authors
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with…
— Adrienne Rich
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If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women.…
— Michel Odent
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It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that…
— Ina May Gaskin
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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 of…
— Ina May Gaskin
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It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the…
— Alice Walker
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
— Alain de Botton
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It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
— Barbara Katz Rothman
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
— Dan Simmons
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How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the…
— Michael J. Gelb
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost…
— Alain de Botton
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Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when…
— Liya Kebede
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Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for…
— Alice Walker
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My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
— Chris Bohjalian
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My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.
— Matthew Morrison
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
— Ina May Gaskin
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I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up…
— James Brown
Who Wrote These Midwives Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 16 Midwives Quotes as follows: