All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendants with infinite patience.

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in!

In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.

Life may be circular but its circumference keeps getting wider for us to grow.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

Self-knowledge makes me happy.

I do not crave this" But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others.

We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.