If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.
Ina May GaskinWhy in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.
Ina May GaskinSimply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of womenโs capacities in birth is lost to the people of that societyโto professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.
Ina May GaskinWhen a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.
Ina May Gaskin