It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.

It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.