[The Spartans] ordered the maidens to exercise themselves…

“[The Spartans] should not make war often, or long, with the same enemy, lest that they should train and instruct them in war, by…

— Plutarch

“When someone asked Demaratus why the Spartans disgrace those who throw away their shields but not those who abandon their breastplates or helmets, he…

— Plutarch

The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil,…

— George Orwell

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

— Andrea Dworkin

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities…

— Ina May Gaskin

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is…

— Erica Jong

In my practice, the majority of mutation carriers choose mastectomy; however, for those without cancer, they have much more control over the timing. For…

— Kristi Funk

Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now…

— Nancy Pelosi

It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened…

— George Orwell

Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from…

— Martin Luther

“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the mouth and…

— Joseph Lewis

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…

— Margaret Sanger

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

— Margaret Sanger

Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon,…

— Joan Raphael-Leff