Midwives Quotes

16 quotes by 12 authors

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
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
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
When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that canâ€™t be put together by a bunch of… — Ina May Gaskin
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
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. — Alain de Botton
It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth. — Barbara Katz Rothman
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons
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
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
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
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
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
My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think. — Matthew Morrison
We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other. — Ina May Gaskin
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: