Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society—to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.