To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to…

Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.

— Jonathan Scott

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.…

— Ray Bradbury

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

— Martin Luther

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.

— Shaka

To bear children is the ultimate in femininity; it's beautiful. And if having kids is going to affect my career, then fine, let it.…

— Kate Beckinsale

“Just because women can bear children doesn't mean they're unable to harbour the same sort of career ambitions as a man.”

— Cathy Kelly

That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

— D. H. Lawrence

“evolution doesn’t have much interest in protecting us anymore because we’re less likely to have—or be able to bear—children.”

— David B. Agus

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

— Erica Jong

Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.

— Mary Beth Whitehead

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more…

— Indira Gandhi

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence…

— Saint Augustine

To understand your parents' love bear your own children.

— Chinese Proverbs