Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none. —
Marsden Wagner

I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart. —
Ina Garten

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful. —
Ina Garten

It's good to laugh at times that feel
inappropriate. —
Ina May Gaskin

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties. —
Ina Garten

Squat 300 times a day, you're going to give birth quickly. —
Ina May Gaskin

I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time. —
Ina Garten

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. —
Ina May Gaskin

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken. —
Ina Garten

Where is the peace that should with thee abide O Earth? —
Ina Coolbrith

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. —
Ina Garten

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested. —
Ina Garten

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out. —
Ina Garten

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right. —
Ina May Gaskin

Your body is not a lemon! —
Ina May Gaskin

Angels are not beings with wings; they are feelings that give us wings. —
Ina Catrinescu

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance. —
Ina Garten

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry! —
Ina Garten

What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them. —
Ina May Gaskin

Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned. —
Ina Catrinescu

All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank. —
Ina Garten

Step one to preventing PPD is to find time to sleep after giving birth, no matter how euphoric you feel. —
Ina May Gaskin

Let your monkey do it. —
Ina May Gaskin

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life. —
Ina May Gaskin

It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby ... it inspires him. —
Ina May Gaskin

We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other. —
Ina May Gaskin

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors. —
Ina Garten

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter. —
Ina May Gaskin

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have! —
Ina Garten

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read. —
Ina Coolbrith

Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor. —
Ina May Gaskin

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work! —
Ina Garten

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out. —
Ina Garten

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable. —
Ina Garten

Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it. —
Ina May Gaskin

I love to take something ord
inary and make it really special. —
Ina Garten

I kept thinking while I was pushing, I'm going to get huge. I'm going to get huge! she said. —
Ina May Gaskin

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we —
Ina May Gaskin

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special. —
Ina Garten

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out. —
Ina May Gaskin

Lyrics belongs to us
ina specific language, but music is universal. —
Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad. —
Ina May Gaskin

I guess one gets the face one deserves. —
Ina Claire

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up. —
Ina Garten

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself. —
Ina Garten

It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women ... But it's not nice, so let's stop it. —
Ina May Gaskin

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics. —
Ina Garten

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. —
Ina May Gaskin

The Creator is not a careless mechanic. —
Ina May Gaskin

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken. —
Ina May Gaskin

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal. —
Ina Garten

I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa. —
Ina Garten

If you want to be happy, be" -- Leo Tolstoy
"The hard part is knowing it's easy" -- Abraham Hicks —
Ina Zajac

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know. —
Ina May Gaskin

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere. —
Ina Garten

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer. —
Ina Garten

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored. —
Ina May Gaskin

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living
ina desert if not for government meddling. —
Jon Stewart

Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog. —
Ina Caro

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. —
Ina Garten