“But when we make choices that are different than what our friends are doing, it might seem to them that we are questioning their choices - even if it has nothing to do with them.... And what is the...”

“One time, when I was little more than a baby, I was taken to visit my grandmother, who was living in a cottage on a nearly uninhabited stretch of beach in northern Florida. All I remember of this v...”

“A baby is a beautiful, blooming, flower that can smile, sing, and dance.”

“A baby is a symbol of peace, a plot of dreams, a light of hope, and a bundle of joy.”

“Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but ...”

“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.”

“A child is reliving millions of years of Evolution from a single cell to a XXI Century Human. This is the most amazing miracle I've ever encountered, and I am truly grateful to the Nature for letti...”

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

“A child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, in sacred moment of conception.”

“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.”