• Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.

    Ina May Gaskin: Pregnant 
 and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that 
 gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental 
 forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have 
 to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that 
 you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.
    Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.270, Book Publishing Company