Birth Quote by Sarah J. Buckley

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they…

— Agnes Smedley

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…

— Ina May Gaskin

If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to…

— Phyllis Chesler

Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

— James Stephens

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

— Ani DiFranco

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like…

— Louise Erdrich

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Women are more than capable of making our own choices about our bodies and our health care.

— Michelle Obama

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been…

— Heath Ledger

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

— Louise Erdrich

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

— Pipilotti Rist