War is to man what maternity is to a woman

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I come from Canada, and maternity leave is six months to a year, and they also have paternity leave, and I think that there's…

— Cobie Smulders

Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

The truth is I don't want my baby out in the freezing cold just because there's an election. But there is no such thing…

— Kemi Badenoch

The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Maternity leave is for women to hide and heal their disintegrating body.

— Ali Wong

The amount I have cost the NHS for maternity services is phenomenal.

— Kemi Badenoch

I had to learn how to not be a micro-manager. Maternity leave made me do that. I just couldn't anymore.

— Reshma Saujani

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

— James Purefoy

In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Beginning in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when women started to go into the formal workforce, leaving working at home to working in…

— Jody Heymann

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of…

— Martin Luther

The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed…

— Alice von Hildebrand

The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love,…

— Catharine Beecher

Every maternity ward is just a Facebook wall post factory.

— Nikhil Saluja