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Michel Odent has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our…
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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…
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Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest…
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It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect…
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According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all…
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I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather,…
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Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control…
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Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four…
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People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about…
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To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,
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When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid…
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...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.
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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their…
— Edith Wharton
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had…
— Eric Hoffer
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct…
— Saint Augustine
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The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over…
— Max Lucado
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It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with…
— Gloria Steinem
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Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than…
— Luther Standing Bear
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As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second…
— Cyprian
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They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they…
— Andrew Solomon
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Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the…
— Pat Conroy
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