“If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.”
Ami McKay“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.”
Ami McKay, The Virgin Cure“American girls never whimper.”
Ami McKay, The Virgin Cure“If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.”
Ami McKay, The Birth House“Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.”
Ami McKay, The Birth House“Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.”
Ami McKay, The Virgin Cure“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.”
Ami McKay, The Birth House