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

Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

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.