...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.

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.

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.

You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.