Roshini Schroeder

“Is this what growing into an adult woman is—having to predict and accordingly arrange for the avoidance of sexual harassment?”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“Before enlightenment, cornflakes and coffee. After enlightenment, cornflakes and coffee.”
― Dena Moes, The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal

“Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold prenatal care from the home-birther. This is judgmental and vindictive. These doctors have decided that home birth is not safe, and by withholding prenatal care they are doing their best to make sure it is unsafe. Often it is lay midwives who step forward to fill the void and help eliminate the unnecessary dangers of home birth. They are essential for screening out women who really should not have a home birth. For considerably less money than a physician charges, they spend many more hours with a pregnant woman before, during, and after the birth. and in most places they courageously face the opposition of the established medical community.”
― Susan McCutcheon, Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way

“Good midwifery is a combination of art, science, experience, and instinct.”
― Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives