Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
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John Joseph Powell
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!
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William Shakespeare
We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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Veronica Roth
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She...
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Hermann Hesse
That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget.
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Iain Thomas
More Quotes By Ina May Gaskin
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
