Barbara Katz Rothman quotes

“Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength”
-- Barbara Katz Rothman

Source : Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers,”
-- Barbara Katz Rothman

Source : Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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“It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.”
-- Barbara Katz Rothman

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“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.”

“Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.”

“I feel betrayed by own mother.”

“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”

“The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.”

Source : "The Case for Contraception" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

“The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.”

“Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.”

“Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.”

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”