Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As… — Joan Raphael-Leff Copy Share Image
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
In my practice, the majority of mutation carriers choose mastectomy; however, for those without cancer, they have much more control over the… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“[The Spartans] ordered the maidens to exercise themselves with wrestling, running, throwing the quoit, and casting the dart, to the end that… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I don't know who it is, probably some geek - said that when a female gets to a certain age, all her… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
