“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers—strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”
--Barbara Katz Rothman, MD

“If I don’t know my options, I don’t have any.”
​—Diana Korte

“A woman, as long as she lives, will remember how she was made to feel at her birth.”
--Anna Verwaal

“I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude.”
—Judith M. Knowlton

​“Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So, also, pain is only pain unless we resist it, then it becomes torment.”
—I Ching

​“The skill of being with women in pain in labour often rests in believing in women when they do not believe in themselves.”
–Nicky Leaf

“However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.”
—Elizabeth Noble

“We have a secret in our culture and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that [birthing people] are strong.”       
—Laura Stavoe Harm