"I remember my great-grandmother, too...Her husband died before I was born, but I remember that whenever my great-grandmother walked into a room, her grandsons and her nephews stood up. The women in her family were very, very articulate. Of course, my great-grandmother could not read, but she was a midwife and people from all over the state came to her for advice and for her to deliver babies. They came for other kinds of medical care, too. Yes, I feel the authority of those women more than I do my own."
Toni Morrison...from text at the Reclaiming Midwives exhibit at the Smithsonian.
It just makes me feel good...
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