"If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing."
- Ami McKay
"Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well ..."
- Ina May Gaskin
"The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle."
- Sheila Stubbs
"Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none."
- Marsden Wagner
"One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery."
"When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother. How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother and as a parent.Be gentle. Be kind. Listen."
- Ruth Ehrhardt