Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

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.

Give your life a destination.

The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.

By looking to the Source, to the Creator of nature, we can remember how to navigate life organically, with less struggle, and less suffering.

There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.