I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

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

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.

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.

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.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

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