Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
Ina May GaskinWhen 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.
Ina May GaskinWhy should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.
Ina May GaskinWhenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.
Ina May GaskinWhen you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that canโt be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesnโt happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.
Ina May Gaskin