The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to disempower and violate women. – Mary Rucklos Hampton
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. – MrsE.B. Duffey, What Women Should Know, 1873
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking. – Kyra Sedgwick
