I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

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

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.

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.

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

The matter with human beans, " the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?

Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.