"I cannot believe that NSWRU don't want to interview me."

“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.”

Source : Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.6, Seven Stories Press

“My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.”

“Amusement to an observing mind is study.”

“There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?”

“Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.”

“A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.”

“I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell.”

“When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.”