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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing QUOTES

1 " If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

2 " The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

3 " I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

4 " The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. —Albert Einstein "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

5 " Still, far too often girls are given the message that their bodies, their lives, and their femaleness must be apologized for. Have you noticed how often women apologize? "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

6 " The secret to thriving is the knowledge that we are never simply victims of our bodies. It’s very reassuring to know that we all have within us the ability to heal from anything and go on to live joy-filled lives. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

7 " courage necessary to make radical and life-giving changes in your mind and body that will allow you to flourish on all levels. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

8 " In Celtic cultures, the young maiden was seen as the flower; the mother, the fruit; the elder woman, the seed. The seed is the part that contains the knowledge and potential of all the other parts within it. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

9 " hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment—and health. Though we’ve too often been talked out of our desires as children, "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

10 " become the physical embodiment of your soul so that you discover the woman you were always meant to be. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

11 " the most fundamental and radical of these changes is learning how to love and accept your precious body right now. It is, after all, the temple that houses your soul. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

12 " Somewhere deep inside many of us is an apology for our very existence. As Anne Wilson Schaef writes, “The original sin of being born female is not redeemable by works.”3 No "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

13 " Consider the following: More than 40 percent of women in the United States have likely been the victim of violence, including childhood sexual abuse (almost 18 percent), physical assault (more than 19 percent), rape (more than 20 percent), and intimate partner violence (almost 35 percent).4 Some 6 percent of all pregnant women experienced violence during their pregnancies as well.5 Despite the widespread violence against women, less than 10 percent of primary care physicians normally screen for domestic violence during routine office visits.6 Yet if the violence is not addressed, it "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

14 " The world at large is finally waking up to the fact that we can no longer ignore the victims of intimate violence and the link between intimate violence and international violence, including terrorism. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

15 " thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

16 " Anthropologist Richard Grossinger, Ph.D., puts it this way: “Guess what? God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him [or her], to mourn and celebrate enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging judge in robes. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

17 " Instead of celebrating our cyclic nature as a positive aspect of our female being, up until very recently we’ve been taught that we shouldn’t acknowledge our periods at all, lest we neglect the needs of our spouses and children. Consider this excerpt from a 1963 insert inside a tampon box: WHEN YOU’RE A WIFE Don’t take advantage of your husband. That’s an old rule of good marriage behavior that’s just as sensible now as it ever was. Of course, you’ll not try to take advantage, but sometimes ways of taking advantage aren’t obvious. You wouldn’t connect it with menstruation, for instance. Yet, if you neglect the simple rules that make menstruation a normal time of month, and retire for a few days each month, as though you were ill, you’re taking advantage of your husband’s good nature. He married a full-time wife, not a part-time one. So you should be active, peppy, and cheerful every day.27 "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

18 " A 2003 report by a division of the Cyprus government recently reported that more than 2,000 women a year, particularly those arriving from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics hoping for a better life, end up forced into prostitution and trafficked to other European and Arab countries.18 A United Nations report estimates that in Asia alone, about a million children work in the sex trade and are kept in slavery-like conditions (such as being locked in brothels and beaten if they are uncooperative, not to mention being undernourished and sedated with drugs "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

19 " have heard is that matter is the densest form of spirit and that spirit is the lightest form of matter. We can view our bodies as manifestations of spiritual energy. Our mind and daily thoughts are part of this energy, and they have a well-documented effect on matter and our bodies. Our daily thoughts and emotions, which are accompanied by a multitude of biochemical changes in our bodies, set up an electromagnetic field around us (and around every cell in our bodies) that attracts to us our vibratory equivalent. This tendency is known as the law of attraction and is the most fundamental law that governs the universe. Like is attracted to like. As we vibrate, so we attract. Or to state it more simply, birds of a feather flock together. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

20 " We become programmed with a set of upper limits for what we believe we deserve in life. That includes how healthy, how prosperous, and how well loved we can expect to be. These beliefs operate in our subconscious, under the radar of our everyday consciousness. But they unerringly attract to us experiences that reinforce what we already believe. "

― Christiane Northrup , Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing