"We were all held, touched, interrelated, in an invisible net of incarnation. I would scarcely think of it ordinarily; yet for each creature I saw, someone, a mother, had given birth....Motherhood was the gate. It was something that had always been invisible to me before, or so unvalued as to be beneath noticing: the motheredness of the world."
--Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions
"I believe that these circles of women around us weave invisible nets of love that carry us when we're weak and sing with us when we're strong."
--SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
"The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women cam do...Birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal. My friend's partner said, 'Birth is like going for a swim in the ocean. Will there be a riptide? A big storm? Or will it just be a beautiful, sunny little dip?' Its indeterminate length, the mystery of its process, is so much a part of the nature of birth. The regimentation of a hospital birth that wants to make it happen and use their gizmos to maximum effect is counter to birth in general."
--Ani DiFranco interviewed in Mothering magazine, May/June 2008
--Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions
"I believe that these circles of women around us weave invisible nets of love that carry us when we're weak and sing with us when we're strong."
--SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
"The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women cam do...Birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal. My friend's partner said, 'Birth is like going for a swim in the ocean. Will there be a riptide? A big storm? Or will it just be a beautiful, sunny little dip?' Its indeterminate length, the mystery of its process, is so much a part of the nature of birth. The regimentation of a hospital birth that wants to make it happen and use their gizmos to maximum effect is counter to birth in general."
--Ani DiFranco interviewed in Mothering magazine, May/June 2008
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