If you want to know the feeling, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head. – Carol Burnett, about labor pain, quoted in Fatherhood by Bill Cosby

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

Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth. – Valerie El Halta

The dreams that we have in pregnancy are tainted with the worries and joys of pregnancy and the changing roles of our lives. – Robin Elise Weiss