Avoiding Quote by Michel Odent

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or…

— Hillary Clinton

So many words commonly used to describe childbirth-support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, helped, guided-suggest that a woman does not have the power to…

— Michel Odent

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we…

— Michel Odent

A person can't help their birth.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

— Gelett Burgess

Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold…

— Jalaja Bonheim

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…

— Ina May Gaskin

...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering…

— Marsden Wagner

“Many women think it is birth itself which is damaging and are unaware that it is an intervention which caused the problem.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

PREPARED CHILDBIRTH: A contradiction in terms.

— Nikhil Saluja

They say that the essence of being a woman is to give birth

— Ritu Ghatourey

I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is surely the…

— Ani DiFranco