Ancestor Quote by Sheila Kitzinger

One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions…

— Adrienne Rich

Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means…

— Ina May Gaskin

It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must…

— Grantly Dick-Read

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

Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been…

— Grantly Dick-Read

. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn…

— Susan Piver

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

— Robin Lim

Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

— Debra Evans

I've found childbirth to be so unique in its ability to completely humble you while also completely empowering you. It reduces you to your…

— Eva Amurri

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

— Jessica Capshaw

Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the…

— Sarah J. Buckley

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

— Erma Bombeck