Doulas Quotes:

I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.

- Erykah Badu

source: "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

topic: People, Doulas, Welcome

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

- Erykah Badu

source: "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

topic: Home, Nursing, Passing On, Doulas, Hospice

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

- Emily Oster

topic: Helping, Planning, Birth, Doulas, Epidurals

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

- Gaby Hoffmann

source: "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

topic: Summer, Wall, Thinking, Stone Walls, Doulas

"The Doula" was and is a very, very special episode to me because I think it's very funny and very weird and it also is 100 percent based on my life, in that I fainted three times during Sex Ed in real life the three different years.

- John Mulaney

source: Source: uproxx.com

topic: Sex, Real, Thinking, Doulas