I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born.

It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

The only significant effect of continuous electronic fetal monitoring was an increase in the cesarean rate.

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

There was a time where I chose my jobs based on what jobs were available to me, so I would choose 100 percent of them.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.