For far too many, pregnancy ...

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves
 Sheila Kitzinger

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In acknowledging woman-to-woman help it is important to recognize that power, within the family and elsewhere, can be used vindictively, and that it is not only powerful men who abuse women; women with power may also abuse other women.
 Sheila Kitzinger
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.
 Sheila Kitzinger