The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

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

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

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.

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.