I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things … - Ina May Gaskin

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Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.

Ina May Gaskin

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

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When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

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It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women. . . But it's not nice, so let's stop it.

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Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

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It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

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Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

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