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 thatโs the feeling we want moms to have.
Ina May GaskinIt's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.
Ina May GaskinThere is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
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 Gaskin