Ina May Gaskin Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Inspirational, Women, Giving

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Mar 22, 2015

• 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.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Impact, Giving, Mind

• Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Elephants

• I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mom, Baby, Powerful

• 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.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Confused, Giving, Mammals

• Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Giving, Birth, Squat

  "Ina May Gaskin and the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project Focus on High U.S. Maternal Mortality Rates". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 19, 2012.

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