Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing the humanity and power of women in the childbirth process.
Marsden Wagner's quote advocates for a compassionate and respectful approach to childbirth by highlighting the intrinsic humanity of women. Instead of viewing women as mere vessels for reproduction, it calls for society to acknowledge their strength and agency, asserting that underestimating their power to give birth not only harms women but also has detrimental effects on society as a whole.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a women's rights conference to emphasize the importance of empowering women in all aspects of society.
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.
Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.
We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
The best physician is also a philosopher.
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